Press Releases

As Tony Blair prepares for talks with US President Bush in Washington today, Amnesty International said the Prime Minister should call for the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to be closed...

Speaking at the launch of Amnesty International Report 2006, the organisation’s Secretary General Irene Khan said that the security agenda of the powerful and privileged had diverted the energy and...

Mae Amnest Rhyngwladol Cymru a Chymdeithas Brydeinig Gweithwyr Cymdeithasol (Cymru) yn herio ‘dynion go iawn’ o Gymru gyfan i gymryd rhan yn yr ymgyrch i Atal Trais yn erbyn Merched. Bydd y ddwy...

Amnesty International Wales and the British Association of Social Workers (Wales) are challenging ‘real men’ from all over Wales to get involved in the campaign to Women's rights's rights's rightss...

Snow Patrol are backing a new Amnesty International campaign to bring justice to the war-torn Darfur region of southern Sudan. This Northern Ireland rockers are providing the soundtrack to a new...

Amnesty International is publishing a Memorandum to the Chinese authorities on the proposed reform of the ‘Re-education through Labour’ laws and detention without trial through public order...

Seventy gravestones have been placed outside the Scottish Parliament today (10 May) to signify the number of people lost to small arms around the world every two hours. At the same time Amnesty...

Hundreds of Amnesty International members from across the UK are descending on parliament today (10 May) to lobby MPs for tough controls on the Arms, as a new report reveals a network of arms...

Amnesty International UK will host a public debate on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s human rights and fundamentalism at its Human Rights Action Centre (Shoreditch, East...

Amnesty International (AI) welcomes the call from the European Union Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini for European governments to cooperate fully with the Council of Europe's investigation into...