Press Releases
Amnesty International has today (1 Nov) called on the Scottish Parliament to support the establishment of a Scottish Human Rights Commission when MSPs come to decide on its future tomorrow. The...
Amnesty International celebrated the power of principled leadership and individual activism today with two major international human rights awards. In Johannesburg, Amnesty International bestowed upon...
Unique charity campaign asks people to give time not money during this festive season Amnesty International today launches its annual Greetings Card Campaign encouraging people across the UK to send a...
Amnesty International welcomed today's new legislation under which the Supreme Court would review all death penalty verdicts in China but urged the authorities to abolish the death penalty once and...
Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights continue to be slain in Rio de Janeiro, with little or no reaction from the authorities. Sixty-four-year-old Alice da...
Amnesty International today (27 October) issued a ‘Call to Bloggers’, asking them to get online and stand up for freedom of expression on the internet. The organisation says this is a critical time...
Control Arms Campaign: Amnesty International, International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) and Oxfam International Last night at the United Nations, the majority of the world’s governments took...
One year after 13 migrants were killed and hundreds were wounded while trying to enter the Spanish enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, a new report from Amnesty International based on victims’ testimonies and...
A vigil was held today (24 Oct) outside the Russian consulate in Edinburgh in memory of Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. The vigil, arranged by Amnesty International, also involved handing in a...
On the eve of an historic vote to begin work on an Arms Treaty in the UN General Assembly's First Committee, 15 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Oscar Arias and...