Press releases in 2010

Child abuse and Gay rights head list of concerns The Pope should take the opportunity of his first State visit to the United Kingdom to address growing public concern over sexual abuse of Children's...

Amnesty International has announced details of a major conference to be held in Belfast next month to press for an independent inquiry into institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland. The Time For...

The United Nations’ top expert on health will tell politicians at Stormont on Monday that Northern Ireland can be part of the solution to global poverty. Anand Grover, UN Special Rapporteur on Health...

Tens of thousands of detainees held without trial in Iraq, many of whom were recently transferred from US custody, remain at risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment, Amnesty International...

The Indonesian government must immediately initiate an independent, effective and impartial inquiry into allegations that a peaceful political activist was repeatedly denied access to adequate medical...

Amnesty International has urged the Indian authorities to carry out an effective investigation into a video clip that appears to show detainees in Kashmir being stripped and humiliated by security...

Amnesty International has urged the French authorities to comply with a European Parliament resolution to suspend its policy of expulsions of Roma from the country. European MPs passed a key...

Amnesty International calls for an end to the harassment of human rights defenders and political activists in Swaziland following the arrest of nearly 50 people at an activists’ gathering in the city...

Amnesty International has urged Mozambique’s police not to use live ammunition to disperse violent demonstrations in the capital Maputo unless lives are at risk. Thirteen people are reported to have...

Amnesty International today strongly condemned recent attacks, one of them fatal, against Israeli civilians in the occupied West Bank and urged the 13 Palestinian armed groups who have issued a...