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Press releases in 2016

Saudi Arabia should be suspended from UN's Human Rights Council

Amnesty and Human Rights Watch call for move in light of carnage in Yemen and Saudi Arabia’s bullying of UN system

Today's CIA rendition cases at European Court are 'last chance' for truth

'Romania and Lithuania have never been held accountable for their direct involvement in CIA rendition and secret detention' - Julia Hall

Commons rendition debate should prompt Government to allow torture inquiry

Why a judicial inquiry is needed into UK involvement in rendition and torture – joint-NGO statement ahead of the adjournment debate in Parliament on 29 June 2016

Amnesty launches urgent campaign on racism in the UK; member racially abused in Belfast

Amnesty International today announced a new emergency campaign to combat racism

Morocco: seven on trial for running phone app journalism training course

Journalists and activists were using StoryMaker storytelling app

Amnesty launches urgent campaign on racism in the UK amid rise in reported hate crime

Amnesty to conduct research into racism in the UK

The challenge now, is to focus on what unites us rather than what divides us

Responding to the UK’s referendum vote in favour of leaving the EU, Kate Allen Amnesty’s UK Director, said:

Northern Ireland must bring abortion laws into 21st century

Northern Ireland must urgently bring its abortion laws into the 21 st century and into line with international human rights standards, Amnesty International said today as a Court of Appea

Zambia's closure of 'The Post' newspaper is an attack on media freedom

‘The closure of The Post newspaper is a disturbing development clearly designed to silence critical media voices’ - Deprose Muchena

Jordan's response to border bombing must not mean barring desperate Syrian refugees

70,000 refugee lives ‘hang in the balance’ - Sherif Elsayed-Ali