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...

Today at the United Nations after years of discussions and debates, the vast majority of governments – 153 in total – agreed a timetable to establish a "strong and robust" Arms Treaty (ATT) with the...

The assault of two independent journalists in Tunisia and the arrest of a third in the wake of last week’s elections must be punished, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International Middle...

Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is expected to warn that the far-right may take advantage of growing inequality and will urge people to organise against poverty, as...

Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is expected to warn that the far-right may take advantage of growing inequality and will urge people to organise against poverty, as...