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As the human rights organisation issued a new Urgent Action on a Bangladeshi journalist and his family who have received death threats, it said the UK government's policy could send asylum seekers...

Lesley Warner, Amnesty International UK Media Director said today: 'The recent actions to help bring about police accountability are positive, welcome and give credibility to the government's...

As fighting and insecurity intensify in Liberia, Amnesty International is today (24 June 2003) urging the international community to organise a humanitarian evacuation programme for the tens of...

The organisation said that the security situation in Afghanistan had deteriorated in 2003, with at least two thirds of the country now in a situation of 'generalised instability.' There have been...

The meeting will underline the need for closer co-operation between trade unionists and other human rights defenders around the world. Luis Miguel Morantes, general secretary of the Colombian trade...

'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...