Press Releases

Despite the enormous scale of trafficking of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls for forced prostitution in Greece, the government has failed to guarantee them...

Amnesty International today welcomed the news that Internet dissident Nguyen Vu Binh has been released from Ba Sao prison after spending almost five years behind bars. Amnesty International has...

Double CD for Amnesty with U2, Avril Lavigne, R.E.M., Aerosmith, Christina Aguilera, Green Day, The Cure, Youssou N’Dour and 20 others to follow Amnesty’s new global Darfur petition coincides with...

Amnesty International has today (11 June) expressed its support for two shareholder resolutions up for vote at tomorrow’s Yahoo! annual meeting in California, one calling on the company to oppose...

Amnesty International has written to the Belarusian Minister of the Interior and to the Procurator General to protest against the planned deportation of Jaroslaw Lukasik, a Protestant pastor and...

New report comes after ‘ghost detainees’ prisoner list published Responding to today’s Council of Europe report into “renditions” and secret detentions, Amnesty International said: “Amnesty...

Amnesty International, Cageprisoners, The Center for Constitutional Rights, The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, Human Rights Watch, and Reprieve New...

Satellite cameras are employed to monitor events on the ground Amnesty International is using satellite cameras to monitor highly vulnerable villages in war-torn Darfur, Sudan. The human rights...

Internet entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox gave a powerful speech tonight (6 June), applauding the power of the individual online, at an Amnesty International event examining the future of Internet Freedom...

Amnesty International today (6 June) warned that the Internet ‘could change beyond all recognition’ unless action is taken to stop the ‘Virus of Internet repression’ eroding freedom of expression...