Press releases in 2012

Following an armed police raid on a human rights workshop attended by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in Kampala on Monday (18 June), Amnesty International has reiterated its...

Meeting between Michael Moore MP and David Grimason to convey Scots' support for Arms Treaty Event taking place ahead of historic UN negotiations for first global Arms Treaty Scottish Arms Control...

More than 150 school pupils and university students from across the UK will today travel to Westminster to urge the government to deliver a robust international Arms Treaty. Students and school pupils...

On Wednesday 20 June, pupils and students from Shimna Integrated College, Newcastle, Co. Down and Queen’s University, Belfast will travel to Westminster to join 150 other youth delegates from across...

On Wednesday 20 June, students and school pupils, including some as young as 13, will travel from Scotland to urge the Foreign Office Minister of the urgent need for an international legally-binding...

A string of arrests of activists, writers, lawyers, and bloggers mainly in the Omani capital Muscat constitutes an attack on freedom of expression and assembly that must be halted, Amnesty...

“I am at a stage when I envy those parents who find their Children's rights’s corpses.” - Boris Ozdoev, father of a forcibly disappeared man Russian authorities must clampdown on law enforcement...

Hundreds of the men and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who flee each year to Cyprus in search of refuge and asylum from war, persecution and poverty are locked away by the...

Amnesty International paid tribute today to Labour politician and barrister Lord Archer of Sandwell QC, who died on 14 June 2012 aged 85. He was one of the human rights organization’s founding members...

The inauguration of Fatou Bensouda as the second ever International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor signals a new era in international justice and the potential for a more robust approach to their...