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40% know girls whose boyfriends have coerced or pressured them to have sex A new ICM survey commissioned by the Find out about Amnesty's Women's rights's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...

Amnesty International today restated their opposition to PSNI proposals to introduce 50,000-volt electro-shock Tasers, as it made its submission to a police consultation (which closes on Monday 20th...

The Government of Sudan agreed "in principle" to a "hybrid operation" of UN and AU peacekeepers in Darfur in a meeting in Addis Ababa with the African Union, the United Nations, representatives of...

A new report released today (16 November) by Amnesty International reveals the exclusion of Romani Children's rights from primary education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia and the...

In reaction to the news that British man Mirza Tahir Hussain has had his death sentence in Pakistan commuted to a life sentence today (16 November) Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim...

** Amnesty researcher in Gaza available for interview ** The killing this morning of 18 civilians in the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun, victims of Israeli shelling, was an appalling act, Amnesty...

At least 50 people have died and over 100 have been injured after an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in Batticaloa, Eastern Sri Lanka, according to Tamil Tiger sources. In response...

Celebration for release of Helen Berhane marred by a further 160 Christians arrested Amnesty International welcomes the release of Eritrean gospel singer Helen Berhane, who had been held incommunicado...

Refused asylum-seekers eat out of bins and sleep in parks, public toilets and phone-boxes because of government policy The government’s policy on refused asylum-seekers does not work and is forcing...

Amnesty International deplores the decision of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal to impose the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and two of his co-defendants after a trial which was deeply flawed and...