Press Releases

Amnesty International is urging the Belgian Parliament not to pass a draft law which would prohibit the wearing of full-face veils anywhere in public as the country’s Chamber of Deputies prepares to...

Local officials aim to sterilise 9, 559 people by 26 April, some against their will, in a drive to meet family planning targets in Puning City, Guangdong Province, southern China. According to reports...

Amnesty International today strongly condemned the “outrageous” charges brought against a leading investigative judge who is due to appear before the Supreme Court in May on charges of abusing his...

Sri Lanka’s first post-war parliament must get rid of draconian emergency laws that have allowed for decades of widespread human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today. Ahead of the first...

Ahead of ‘World Poverty Day’ (Sunday 18 April) when the three main political party leaders will set out their plans to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, Amnesty International urged the three...

Amnesty International is staging a demonstration outside the Syrian embassy in London tomorrow (Saturday 17 April) calling for the release of prisoners of conscience in the country. The protest...

Amnesty International has today condemned the execution by Hamas of two Palestinian men in Gaza in the early hours of this morning. Both men were convicted last year by Gazan military courts of...

Amnesty International is urging Kenya’s authorities to stop plans to forcibly evict more than 50,000 men, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights who are...

Amnesty International is calling on newly-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his government to ensure accountability for human rights abuses by bringing the country’s laws and practices...

The UK has today been singled out for heavy criticism in a new report from Amnesty International on the practice among European countries of striking “no torture” deals with foreign countries as a...