Press releases in 2017

Reports that Saudi Arabia-led coalition is gearing up for major military offensive on strategic western port city of Hodeidah raises fears that vital entry point for humanitarian aid will be cut off...

Victims of child abuse marched on the Stormont political talks today to demand justice. The protest comes three months on from the publication of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry report –...

Victims of child abuse marched on the Stormont political talks today to demand justice. The protest comes three months on from the publication of the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry report –...

Amnesty International has welcomed the landmark vote of the Citizens’ Assembly in the Republic of Ireland that the Eighth Amendment of the Irish Constitution, which gives equal rights to a foetus as...

Juliet Stevenson, Patrick Stewart and the Kaiser Chiefs support Amnesty’s Football Welcomes initiative.

Premier League player Valon Behrami speaks out about his experience of fleeing Kosovo in 1990 and how football helped him settle in Switzerland.

Macabre reports from inmates in Kirikiri prison in Lagos that gallows are being prepared, with one prisoner taken into isolation Amnesty International has received disturbing reports from inmates at...

Lethal injection rushed through because stocks of chemicals about to expire at end of month Arkansas accused of ‘treating human beings as though they have a sell-by date’ Reacting to last night’s...

Amnesty International has warned all those standing as candidates in the forthcoming general election that their choice of language can have serious consequences, and called for calm and measured...

‘The literal deadline of a drug’s expiration date is shockingly callous’ - James Clark Responding to news that a judge has blocked the US state of Arkansas from using its remaining lethal injection...