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Press releases in 2014

Ukraine: Ongoing abuses and war crimes by pro-Ukrainian volunteer forces - new briefing

In a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk in Kiev today, Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty urged the Ukrainian government to stop abuses and war crimes by volu

Amnesty International launches its Youth Awards 2015

The TES is official partner of Amnesty Youth Awards SOAS is the first university to sponsor Awards

Ukraine: mounting evidence of war crimes and Russian involvement - new satellite images
Amnesty calls on new chair of sex abuse inquiry to investigate Kincora boys' home

Amnesty International has called on Fiona Woolf, the newly announced chair of the government's child sexual abuse inquiry, to investigate abuse and its alleged cover-up at Belfast’s Kinco

Qatar must urgently reveal whereabouts of 'disappeared' UK human rights workers

‘They may have been detained in relation to their human rights work’ - Said Boumedouha

Mexico: 600% increase in torture cases - new report
Amnesty International's Secretary General to visit Ukraine and Russia

Salil Shetty , Secretary General of Amnesty International, will visit Ukraine and Russia between 7-10 September and will be available for interview.

Steven Sotloff killing is 'tip of the iceberg' of Islamic State crimes in Syria and Iraq

‘The execution of Steven Sotloff is a war crime’ - Philip Luther

Iraq: new evidence of Islamic State's ethnic cleansing of minorities

‘They lay in agony waiting to die. They died a horrible death’ - survivor of massacre at Kocho village

Israel must scrap 'outrageous' illegal land grab in the West Bank

The Israeli authorities’ outrageous plan to expropriate nearly 1,000 acres of land in the West Bank is illegal and must be rescinded immediately, said Amnesty International.