Press Releases
The annual human rights campaign, involving people in the UK sending cards to those under threat around the world, saw an overwhelming response to 32 cases of people suffering or at risk of human...
The report Iraq: Decades of suffering – Now Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights deserve better reveals that the current lack of security has forced many Women's rights's rightss...
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “Charles Clarke today proposed an extension of his powers that would frankly have been beyond belief had it not been for the draconian measures...
Categories to enter in the sought-after awards are: Television documentary Television news Radio National newspapers Periodicals, including weekend national print magazines and supplements...
The report also highlights the care homes’ lack of medical and psychiatric care, poor living conditions, inadequate staffing and the failure to provide activities, therapies or opportunities for...
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: "Hotel Rwanda is an important and timely film. It is a poignant and powerful story of one man and his family set against the backdrop of the 1994...
Amnesty was the first international human rights organisation to hold talks with the Government of Nepal after King Gyanendra declared a state of emergency in the country, taking direct control of the...
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: "The onus is on the UK authorities to show that decisions over passports removals and other matters are not reliant on ‘torture evidence’...
The explosion took place on the Corniche in central Beirut near the derelict St George’s Hotel, and caused extensive damage to the road, cars and the fronts of buildings. Amnesty International...
Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan said: "Our first meetings with human rights defenders have highlighted a picture of insecurity, deepened by uncertainty in the wake of the state of...