Press releases in 2009

BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme has been shortlisted for a prestigious Amnesty International Media Award. The programme, Prisoner B2970, told the shocking story of the death by suicide of...

Amnesty International UK today announced the shortlists for its prestigious annual Media Awards. The awards recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism’s significant...

New White Ribbon Scotland website launched at STUC congress. Hollywood star Brian Cox today urged Scottish men to do more in tackling Scotland’s shameful record on violence against Women's rights's...

The Chinese authorities intimidated and unlawfully detained parents and relatives of Children's rights who died in the devastating Sichuan earthquake and harassed activists and lawyers who tried to...

One year after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma, six people have been jailed by the authorities for helping to bury victims while another 15 remain behind bars for their relief efforts. Amnesty...

Amnesty International has expressed grave concern to the UAE authorities about their apparent failure to date to investigate a serious criminal assault alleged to have been committed by a member of...

Leading UK charities propose new Commission on Business, Human Rights & The Environment UK companies that have committed human rights abuses overseas far too often get away with it, a new report...

Amnesty International has expressed outrage at the execution in Iran this morning of Delara Darabi, a child offender executed despite an international ban on capital punishment of those convicted of...

The detention of seven members of the army unit that killed the husband of an Indigenous leader is welcome, but a thorough and independent criminal investigation to identify and prosecute all those...