Press releases in 2011

Annie Lennox and the EQUALS partnership of charities invite you to Join the Big Inequality Debate and celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights...

Amnesty International has urged the Israeli authorities to end their harassment of Palestinian human rights activists after a well-known campaigner in Haifa was jailed for nine years and given an...

Amnesty International has called on the Yemeni authorities to protect a human rights activist and journalist who says she has received a death threat for her role in organising and taking part in the...

Amnesty International has called on the Yemeni authorities to protect a human rights activist and journalist who says she has received a death threat for her role in organising and taking part in the...

Amnesty International has condemned the findings of an Israeli inquiry into last year’s raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla as a “whitewash” which failed to account for the deaths of nine Turkish...

Amnesty International has urged the Ghanaian authorities to halt the eviction of thousands of people living next to railway lines in the capital, Accra amid new fears that they are facing imminent...

* Detained protestors tell Amnesty of beatings * Amnesty experts available to talk about the unfolding situation in Egypt Amnesty International has urged the Egyptian authorities to rein in security...

Amnesty International has condemned the recommendation of the UK counter-terrorism review that supports and seeks to extend the use of diplomatic assurances to return people to countries where they...

Amnesty International has called on the Ugandan authorities to ensure a credible investigation into the death of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) rights activist who...

In response to the murder of David Kato, one of the leading human rights defenders who worked to promote the human rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in...