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Sep 8 2022 3:52pm
UN: New high commissioner must be ‘loud and clear’ when championing victims of human rights abuses
Austria's Volker Türk is proposed to be next UN human rights chief ...
Jul 22 2022 3:16pm
UK: Government attacks on human rights lawyers are putting them in ‘serious’ danger
Prominent international human rights lawyer, Caoilfhionn Gallagher has...
Jul 15 2022 5:18pm
Russia: 'Unjust and cruel' prison sentence handed to opposition activist
Andrei Pivovarov, former head of the UK-based Otkrytaya Rossiya (Open ...
Jul 4 2022 1:48pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Pride March Dispersed With Excessive Force
Police violently broke up the student-organised Pride march on 10 June...
May 30 2022 9:00am
5 Ways Humanity Won This Year (So Far)
This month marks 61 years of Amnesty UK working to defend peop...
May 23 2022 5:07pm
Human Rights Defender Released
Egyptian human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Ibrahim Ezz ...
May 12 2022 2:56pm
UK: Fresh call on the Government to help British national on hunger strike in Egypt
Human rights activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah who rose to prominence during...
May 3 2022 6:06pm
Greece: Acquittal of police officers in LGBTI activist killing 'beggars belief'
Zak Kostopoulos, queer activist and drag artist, was brutally beaten b...
Apr 25 2022 5:53pm
Turkey: Aggravated life sentence for Osman Kavala a 'devastating blow' for human rights
Osman has been arbitrarily detained in Istanbul’s high security Silivr...
Apr 5 2022 12:10pm
UK: Youth activists in training to rise up and defend human rights
Amnesty and The Co-operative Bank back young human rights defenders wi...