Press releases in 2010

New report exposes endemic corruption as cases increases Survivors of rape in Cambodia face limited access to justice, medical services and counselling despite the number of rapes increasing in the...

Amnesty demo highlights global problem of maternal mortality Pictures available on request Hundreds of Amnesty activists descended on Liverpool Street Station earlier today to stage a mass ‘die-in’ of...

* Ali Smith takes up case * Photograph of Raghdah Sa'id Hassan available Amnesty International is increasingly concerned for the fate of a Syrian novelist detained over three weeks ago. Raghdah Sa'id...

Amnesty International has condemned the trial of young blogger in Egypt, calling on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Ahmad Mostafa, 20, a blogger and prisoner of...

Amnesty International has strongly opposed any withdrawal or reduction of the numbers of UN peacekeepers from the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the government requested that the current force...

PANEL DISCUSSION ON: SHELL OIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN NIGERIA The Niger Delta is one of the world's 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems and is home to about 31 million people. Its...

Amnesty International today accused the Mexican authorities of misusing the justice system to detain three community leaders following their protests against high electricity prices in the state of...

Baroness Ashton to visit region in mid March. The EU’s foreign ministers and its High Representative for foreign affairs Baroness Ashton must insist on their right to visit Gaza, say 17 European human...

Taxpayers’ money could be used to fund child labour or slavery under new government proposals, campaign groups warned today. In a joint submission to the Export Credits Guarantee Department’s public...

Pupils at Glencraig Integrated School in Holywood will showcase a world-beating human rights project developed by teachers in Northern Ireland today (Tuesday 2 March). Primary 7 pupils will...