Citizenship – what does it mean to you? For many it’s about identity, inclusion and human rights. For children in the UK, access to citizenship can have an enormous impact on their rights and futures. An estimated 120,000 children...

As Donald Trump’s first 100 days in power come to a close, we’ve rounded up some of the ways he has threatened human rights in the US and around the world. The threat to our rights and freedoms still remains – but so does our...

By Naomi Westland, Press & PR Manager at Amnesty UK Eighty years ago today, when General Franco ordered Nazi planes to drop 22 tons of explosives on Guernica during the Spanish Civil War - killing hundreds of civilians and leaving the...

We all have the right to be treated without discrimination. Alarming reports of an increase in hate crimes across the UK have been in the spotlight since the EU referendum vote. And the full picture is not yet clear – people...

By Marcos Gomez, Director of Amnesty Venezuela The seemingly endless crisis in Venezuela appears to have entered a new dark and alarming chapter. As if from the pages of a terrifying thriller, a crisis that seemed to have reached its...