Press releases in 2014

Responding to news that the UK government will suspend just 12 export licences for arms and other military equipment to Israel, and only if ‘significant hostilities’ resume once the cur

The international community must urgently mount a concerted humanitarian response to assist hundreds of thousands of people across northern Iraq fleeing ethnic cleansing by the forces of the Islami

As news breaks that three judges have recused themselves from a mass court case in Egypt, Amnesty International remains concerned that show trials followed by mass death sentences are becoming a grim trade mark of…

The families of thousands of Afghan civilians killed by US and NATO forces in Afghanistan have been left without justice, Amnesty International said in a new report released today, just months before the planned…

‘ISIS is now in the town … they are gripped by panic and fear’ - Donatella Rovera

There is ‘mounting evidence that the Israeli army has targeted health facilities or professionals’ Philip Luther

‘The warring parties in Tripoli and Benghazi have displayed a wanton disregard for the safety of ordinary civilians’ - Philip L uther

Iraqis displaced by fighting in the north-west of the country must be given urgent humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said after tens of thousands of civilians fled the town of Sinjar a

Gruesome video footage, images and testimonies gathered by Amnesty International provide fresh evidence of extrajudicial executions and other serious human rights violations being carried out by al