Press Releases

Pupils at Glencraig Integrated School in Holywood will showcase a world-beating human rights project developed by teachers in Northern Ireland today (Tuesday 2 March). Primary 7 pupils will...

Amnesty International today (1 March) denounced the practice of flogging in Sudan, which particularly affects Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights. A new Campaign Briefing from...

Amnesty International has issued an “urgent action” appeal calling for the release of a Russian activist after she was forcibly detained in a psychiatric hospital in connection with her activities...

Amnesty International is calling on the government of Bangladesh to carry out a prompt, independent and impartial investigation into the death of two Jumma indigenous residents of the Chittagong Hill...

Amnesty International has today welcomed the publication of a contentious paragraph critical of the UK’s intelligence services in relation to the Binyam Mohamed case. Earlier this month the Court of...

Staff at a local radio station in El Salvador, have been sent a series of death threats by text, after their station broadcast details of the brutal murders of three individuals with anti-mining...

Amnesty International has called on European Union countries to ensure there are effective investigations into their involvement in the CIA rendition and secret detention programme. Amnesty made the...

Amnesty International has called on the government of Zimbabwe to end harassment and intimidation of a union activist who is in hiding after police raided a union office in Harare on Wednesday...

Guinea risks a new era of human rights violations if urgent reforms of the security forces do not take place and the perpetrators of last year’s massacre continue to escape justice, Amnesty...

Amnesty International has criticised Nicaragua’s law which bans abortion in all circumstances after it has been revealed that cancer treatment for a pregnant woman is currently being withheld for fear...