Press releases in 2017

Amnesty International has welcomed the support of the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland for its call for an inquiry into Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland. Eamon Martin, Archbishop of...

Azeri human rights activists, journalists and political dissidents have been the targets of a fraudulent and sustained campaign using emails and Facebook chat, apparently aimed at gaining access to...

A commitment to deliver equal marriage must be a litmus test for any new Northern Ireland government, campaigners said today at a press conference in Belfast. The campaigners, from the Love Equality...

Brazilian-made cluster munitions used on residential areas of Sa’da city One Yemeni mother describes a bomb ‘coming into the bedroom through the ceiling’ Incident comes after UK cluster munition use...

In response to WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of documents on the USA’s Central Intelligence Agency’s hacking tools, Sherif Elsayed Ali, Head of Technology and Human Rights at Amnesty...

Amnesty International has called for an inquiry into allegations of decades of abuse suffered in Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland, including site surveys to check if there are unmarked...

A declaration by the Court of Justice of the European Union that it does not have jurisdiction over the EU-Turkey refugee deal has exposed EU attempts to sidestep scrutiny and accountability, Amnesty...

“This terrifying wave of attacks has seen Coptic Christians…hunted down and murdered by armed groups” The Egyptian authorities must offer urgent protection to Coptic Christians in North Sinai and...