Press releases in 2016

Amnesty International has celebrated two of the UK’s best-known journalists for their dedication to human rights reporting at its 25

Rachel Logan, Amnesty UK’s Legal Programme Director, said:

Amnesty warns of Syrian government’s ‘long and dark history’ of mass detention and disappearances

Amnesty International has welcomed reports that a group set up by the Northern Ireland Executive to examine cases of fatal foetal abnormality has recommended changes to the region’s abortion law. However, the human…

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Following the decision of the High Court to overturn the original investigation of the Independent Police Complaints Commission into the death of 23-year-old factory worker Jordon Begley, Amnesty I

A GP and member of the Isle of Man parliament will tell MLAs at a conference in Belfast today (Friday) not to make the same mistakes as legislators from the island, by reforming abortion law too na

Survivors give harrowing accounts of Burma’s security forces firing at villagers from helicopter gunships, torching hundreds of homes, raping women and girls