Press releases in 2009

Amnesty International today urged the authorities in Côte d’Ivoire to ensure that £27 million compensation paid by the oil trading company Trafigura to victims of one of the worst toxic dumping...

‘And if he smite him with an instrument of iron … the murderer shall surely be put to death’ - Biblical passage relied on by jurors ‘The fact that a man’s life hangs by a thread because of scripture...

Hundreds of activists from Amnesty International and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s sector organisations will descend on Parliament today [4 Nov] to lobby their MPs for...

People alleging torture and other ill-treatment in Spain have been denied justice due to a lack of political will from the Spanish authorities to confront such abuses by security forces, Amnesty...

Amnesty International has warned hundreds of people – including many Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights – may be left homeless if plans to demolish their...

“It is Better to Light a Candle than Curse the Darkness” London, Autumn/ Winter 2009 - Long-time Amnesty International supporter Alice Temperley has partnered with the human rights organisation to...