Press releases in 2005

The organisation, which has also issued a new five-page briefing - The Prevention of Terrorism Bill: A grave threat to human rights and the rule of law in the UK - on the PTB measures, is deeply...

The report, What a Waste: The Case for An Integrated Violence Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights Strategy examines Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...

Mr Benenson founded and inspired Amnesty International in 1961, originally as a one-year campaign for the release of six prisoners of conscience. But from there came a worldwide movement for human...

The annual human rights campaign, involving people in the UK sending cards to those under threat around the world, saw an overwhelming response to 32 cases of people suffering or at risk of human...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “Charles Clarke today proposed an extension of his powers that would frankly have been beyond belief had it not been for the draconian measures...

The report Iraq: Decades of suffering – Now Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights deserve better reveals that the current lack of security has forced many Women's rights's rightss...

Categories to enter in the sought-after awards are: Television documentary Television news Radio National newspapers Periodicals, including weekend national print magazines and supplements...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: "Hotel Rwanda is an important and timely film. It is a poignant and powerful story of one man and his family set against the backdrop of the 1994...

The report also highlights the care homes’ lack of medical and psychiatric care, poor living conditions, inadequate staffing and the failure to provide activities, therapies or opportunities for...

Amnesty was the first international human rights organisation to hold talks with the Government of Nepal after King Gyanendra declared a state of emergency in the country, taking direct control of the...