Turkish LGBTI activists plan Pride marches this Sunday and next Following weeks of violently-suppressed public protests, the Turkish government’s declaration that public assemblies in Istanbul’s...

As hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in cities across Brazil, it's clear that the country’s police are ill-prepared to deal with protests on this scale. Renata Neder, Human Rights...

Amnesty International has launched a new Chinese-language website containing research reports, articles and blog entries on the organisation’s research and activism around the world. While the site is...

DATE: Thursday 4 July, 7.30pm VENUE: Europa Hotel, Belfast House of Commons Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow MP, will deliver the Amnesty International Pride Lecture next month in Belfast. The free lecture...

The Libyan authorities must act immediately to end the indefinite detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants, including children, Amnesty International said in a new briefing published today...

Human rights, including women’s rights, must be integral to any peace deal with the Taliban said Amnesty International as the USA announced that it was to start direct peace talks with Afghanistan’s...

Chinese mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need to do more to prevent their operations from leading to human rights abuses, Amnesty International warned today in...

The Romanian authorities betray thousands of their citizens through broken promises and total disregard of their right to adequate housing, Amnesty International said in a new report published today...

Police in Turkey are refusing to acknowledge that they have people in custody following mass detentions carried out during the night in Istanbul, Amnesty International said today. More than a hundred...

A new report from Amnesty International has revealed that the Spanish authorities are routinely failing to investigate crimes committed during the Civil War and Franco period. Time passes, impunity...