Press Releases
'It is worrying that human rights are not even mentioned on the detailed, 8-page conference agenda', said David Petrasek, Senior Director of Amnesty International's Policy and Evaluation Program, who...
Lesley Warner, Amnesty International UK Media Director, said: 'Aung San Suu Kyi is detained under a law which allows her to be held without charge or trial and without access to legal counsel for up...
Heightened concerns for security have led to an alarming acceptance of torture in some quarters since the events of September 11. A new manual published on Thursday 26 June by Amnesty International...
The refugees will have just fifteen days to appeal their categorisation in a screening process that the two governments have been conducting since March 2001. In a joint statement, Amnesty...
The human rights organisation is looking for a strong public comment from the PM on the need for justice in the Chechen Republic and a clear indication that the UK government is not prepared to ignore...
The Corporate Responsibility Bill has been tabled following the government's failure to include clear proposals on business transparency and accountability to stakeholders in its own recently...
The proposals are to be discussed at this week's EU summit in Thessaloniki, Greece, starting on 20 June. The human rights organisation's 40-page report, Unlawful and Unworkable: extra-territorial...
The UK government should immediately establish a full, independent inquiry into non-combatant deaths in disputed circumstances among members of the UK Armed Forces, Amnesty International said today...
However, the poll - commissioned by Amnesty International UK, Refugee Action and Refugee Council - also shows that more than half of polled young people (51%) believe that asylum-seekers in the UK...
The proposal would be a serious blow to human rights protection in that country, the human rights organisation declared. Amnesty International also warned that the European Court for Human Rights...