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Amnesty International has warned hundreds of people – including many Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights – may be left homeless if plans to demolish their...
People alleging torture and other ill-treatment in Spain have been denied justice due to a lack of political will from the Spanish authorities to confront such abuses by security forces, Amnesty...
“It is Better to Light a Candle than Curse the Darkness” London, Autumn/ Winter 2009 - Long-time Amnesty International supporter Alice Temperley has partnered with the human rights organisation to...
Amnesty International today strongly criticised a call made by Gregory Campbell MP for the use of the death penalty in the UK and internationally. Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland Programme...
Amnesty International today (30 October) urged the Iranian authorities to overturn the reported four-year prison sentence imposed on a British embassy worker. Hossein Rassam, the chief political...
Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is expected to warn that the far-right may take advantage of growing inequality and will urge people to organise against poverty, as...
Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is expected to warn that the far-right may take advantage of growing inequality and will urge people to organise against poverty, as...
The assault of two independent journalists in Tunisia and the arrest of a third in the wake of last week’s elections must be punished, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International Middle...
Today at the United Nations after years of discussions and debates, the vast majority of governments – 153 in total – agreed a timetable to establish a "strong and robust" Arms Treaty (ATT) with the...
Kobra Babaei, an Iranian woman, is feared to be at imminent risk of stoning to death. Her husband Rahim Mohammadi was hanged for “sodomy” on 5 October. According to an interview given by the couple’s...