Press Releases

Call for lifting of blockade one year on from end of Operation ‘Cast Lead’ One year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza Amnesty has called on Israel to lift its “suffocating”...

Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to put in place measures for the protection of human rights and the most vulnerable among the survivors of last week’s devastating earthquake. In...

Amnesty International calls on all candidates standing in Sri Lanka’s Presidential elections on Tuesday 26 January to end widespread human rights violations and the culture of impunity that continues...

Pressure groups accuse the government of putting business interests above human rights and the environment. Taxpayers’ money could be used to fund child labour or slavery under new government...

Reacting to media reports today that Google is to stop censoring Internet search results for users of its Google.cn service in China, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “Amnesty has...

Czech School system still condemns Roma kids to education for Children's rights with mental disabilities despite court ruling A new Amnesty International report on the Czech Republic (13 January)...

Amnesty International has expressed serious concern for the fate of a Yemeni newspaper editor and his two sons following their recent detention in the Gulf state. Hisham Bashraheel, the 66-year-old...

Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to release a group of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who were beaten and arrested during a peaceful vigil in Tehran...

The UK government must scrap abusive, discriminatory and unlawful powers that allow the police to stop and search without reasonable suspicion, Amnesty International said today after the European...

On the eighth anniversary of the first transfers to Guantánamo, leading human rights organisations have today (11 January) urged more European countries to accept detainees held at the US detention...