Press releases in 2010

Five Burmese exiled dissidents staged a defiant protest at the country’s London embassy earlier this morning to mark the 65th birthday of Burma’s iconic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Aung San Suu Kyi led...

Human rights violations in the run up to the World Cup There has been an increase in police harassment of informal traders (hawkers), homeless South Africans, and refugees and migrants who are living...

Millions of Pakistanis in the north-west tribal areas live in a human rights-free zone where they have no legal protection from the government and are subject to abuses by the Taleban, Amnesty...

“Chilling indifference” shown to Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls’ rights – Amnesty Amnesty International has expressed great disappointment at the Nicaragua...

• Adroddiad newydd: mesurau ‘anaddas i bwrpas’ yn y DU yn erbyn masnachu pobl a thorri cyfraith ryngwladol – adroddiad newydd • Mae masnachu pobl yng Nghymru’n gofyn am ffocws Cymru gyfan • Gwefan...

Amnesty International called on the Colombian authorities to ensure justice for all victims of the 1985 hostage situation at the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, which left over 100 people dead, following...

Amnesty International today condemned the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old Mexican boy by a US border patrol officer, who fired across the border at a group of young Mexicans reportedly throwing stones...

Amnesty International deeply regrets the Libyan authorities’ decision to expel the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) from the country - leaving thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers without any protection...

“It’s essential that we stand up for the unjustly imprisoned and be their voice. The prisoner’s worst nightmare is the thought of being forgotten. But knowing that your plight is in the hearts and...

Reacting to reports that a charter flight carrying Iraqi nationals is scheduled to leave the UK for Baghdad via Halmstad, Sweden in the early hours of 9 June, Amnesty International stressed that...