Press releases in 2010

New US military measures to control the activities of US Special Operations forces in Afghanistan are a welcome step but more needs to be done to improve accountability for civilian casualties of...

Pressure is increasing on UK-based FTSE 100 company Vedanta to stop abusing human rights in their bauxite mining and alumina refinery projects in India, said Amnesty International today, after India's...

Grazia magazine editor Jane Bruton and Deputy Editor Marianne Jones today (16 March) announced that they are running the 2010 Virgin London Marathon in support of Amnesty International’s campaign to...

Amnesty International says verdict violates girl’s human rights A 15-year-old girl, who is pregnant after being raped by her step-father, has been denied the right to an abortion by a court in...

‘There’s a climate of fear among my family members, the neighbours and my friends, who do not dare to visit us’ - former prisoner Abdelkarim Harouni Amnesty International called on Tunisia’s President...

Responding to today’s publication of a review by Baroness Stern into how rape is dealt with by the police in England and Wales, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “We welcome Baroness...

Journalist included in leaked secret service memo A leaked list – believed to be compiled by the Sri Lankan intelligence unit – has revealed the names of 35 leading journalists and NGO officers of...

The revelations that Cardinal Brady was involved in a failure to notify the civil authorities of the serial child abuse of Northern Ireland priest Fr Brendan Smyth underlines the need for an inquiry...

Insurgent groups must end the policy of targeting international and national humanitarian agencies which are trying to provide help and assistance to Pakistan’s poor, said Amnesty International today...

Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial, independent and for the results to be made public. On Wednesday...