Press releases in 2008

Huge death toll and refugee flows, death squads, torture, mass imprisonment without charge and rising violence against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights mark last five years...

Archie Panjabi, star of East is East and Bend It Like Beckham, fronts Amnesty campaign The star of East is East and Bend It Like Beckham, Archie Panjabi, is to front Amnesty International’s campaign...

In exclusive interviews Yemeni man tells Amnesty of beatings, aggressive dogs, psychological torture and transfer to secret high-tech ‘black site’ prison Fresh call to reveal whereabouts of secret...

Amnesty demands restoration of constitution and human rights protections As Pakistan prepares to swear-in a new parliament, Amnesty International today called on the country’s new leaders to repair...

Subjected to violence but unable to escape – this is the reality facing over one hundred Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights in Northern Ireland, according...

UK Government ‘is betraying Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in the UK’ Subjected to violence but unable to escape – this is the reality facing hundreds of Women's rights's...

As the British Olympic Association (BOA) prepares to host its AGM, the 2008 National Olympic Assembly, tomorrow (12 March), Amnesty International called on the BOA not to stand silent as China cracks...

Amnesty International Middle East and North Africa Director Malcolm Smart said: “We absolutely condemn this deliberate attack on Israeli civilians as a gross abuse of international humanitarian law...

Reacting to today’s news that Louise Arbour has resigned her position as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Amnesty International has paid tribute to her achievements and called on UN...

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is worse now than it’s been at any time since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967, according to a new report published today (6 March) by a coalition of...