Press Releases
Amnesty International today called on international donors, who are meeting in Bangkok this week, to pressurise the Burmese authorities to end harassment of activists trying to help survivors of...
Amnesty raises concerns over safety ahead of elections Amnesty International today condemned the killings of at least 21 civilians, including journalists and members of a politician’s family, in the...
Amnesty raises concerns over safety ahead of elections Amnesty International today condemned the killings of at least 21 civilians, including journalists and members of a politician’s family, in the...
Amnesty International today welcomed the Sri Lankan government’s promise to allow freedom of movement for the 130,000 people currently held in detention camps in the north of the country by 1 December...
Up to half of Tajik Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights subjected to violence The authorities in Tajikistan are failing to curb rampant domestic violence against Women's rights...
The Tunisian authorities should immediately release a well known government critic, journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, Amnesty International said today. The organisation is calling for trumped-up charges...
Amnesty International today (23 November) urged the Chinese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Huang Qi, a human rights defender who worked with the victims of the 2008 Sichuan...
Ian Paisley, Nadine Coyle and Seamus Heaney would be the Northern Ireland guests of honour and ginger nuts the biscuit of choice at people’s ‘dream tea party’, according to a new survey to mark the...
Stephen Fry, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi would be the guests of honour and chocolate Hobnobs the biscuit of choice at people’s ‘Dream tea party’, according to a new online survey to mark the...
On the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child today (20 November), Amnesty International calls on the Albanian authorities to ensure...