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Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Stephen Bowen said: "With all of the detail around 'concessions' and amendments to this legislation, we shouldn’t lose sight of the simple fact that...

The report, featuring cases as recent as February this year, updates a December report on the risks faced by human rights activists in China. Ye Guozhu, a housing rights activist in Beijing, was...

Amnesty International Scotland and the Sunday Herald are inviting entries for a competition for the best article by a student in Scotland on the theme of ‘asylum and persecution’. The award aims to...

There are now estimated to be almost 650 million small arms in the world today, mostly in the hands of men, and nearly 60 percent of them in the hands of private individuals. Women's rights's rightss...

The demonstration will see a ‘prisoner’ held inside a small cage along with an armchair and a standard lamp - symbolising house arrest measures, one of the ‘control order’ powers that the Home...

But the organisation warned that many more human rights defenders – journalists, lawyers and activists – face threats and attacks every day around the world. Already this year, Amnesty...

Kate Allen continued: "The death penalty does nothing to deter crime and is a human rights violation that brings shame on those countries that use it. In addition, innocent people are always at risk...

The report, What a Waste: The Case for An Integrated Violence Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights Strategy examines Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...

The organisation, which has also issued a new five-page briefing - The Prevention of Terrorism Bill: A grave threat to human rights and the rule of law in the UK - on the PTB measures, is deeply...

Mr Benenson founded and inspired Amnesty International in 1961, originally as a one-year campaign for the release of six prisoners of conscience. But from there came a worldwide movement for human...