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Front companies, private planes and secret underground prisons part of illegal operation Amnesty International today (5 April) called for a full independent public inquiry into all aspects of the UK’s...

Front companies, private planes and secret underground prisons part of illegal operation Amnesty International today (5 April) called for a full independent public inquiry into all aspects of the UK’s...

The Big Chill are delighted to announce that they will be supporting Amnesty International at this year’s festival at Eastnor Deer Park, Malvern Hills, Herefordshire (August 4-6, 2006). The...

Nine out of ten people in Britain want the Government to bring in enforceable rules to ensure businesses minimise any harm from their operations, especially to poor communities and the environment...

Amnesty will promote an event for the real men of Northern Ireland to stand up and be counted and make sure that violence against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights is not...

Amnesty International has revealed that large numbers of Children's rights, some aged as young as 12, are once again being recruited to serve as fighters in the conflict province of North-Kivu...

As the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw accompanies US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today in the north-west of England, Amnesty International called on Mr Straw to use the opportunity to raise key...

Amnesty International and Rape Crisis welcomed the government’s announcement today of possible new measures to raise conviction rates in rape cases but warned that much more needs to be done. The...

As the Policing Board meet to decide on the deployment of electro-shock “taser” weapons to the PSNI, a new report from Amnesty International reveals a significant year-on-year increase in deaths...

Reacting to today's reports that former Liberian president Charles Taylor has "escaped" from his home in Calabar, Nigeria, Amnesty International said "any country in which he is found has a...