Press releases in 2017

The Cuban authorities are using control of the job market as a tool of repression, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The 40-page report, Your mind is in prison , shows how...

Amnesty International warmly welcomes this morning’s announcement that a majority of Australians who participated in the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey said yes to equality, love, fairness and...

Industry giants failing to tackle child labour abuse in cobalt battery supply chains via Democratic Republic of Congo and China Microsoft, Lenovo and Renault among worst, while UK company Vodafone...

The Russian authorities will tighten their stranglehold on press freedom in the country today by introducing a bill that designates foreign-funded news organisations as “foreign agents” and imposes...

In response to findings released today following the Myanmar military’s internal investigation into violence in northern Rakhine State since 25 August, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Regional...

The Nigerian authorities must halt a violent campaign of forced evictions in waterfront communities in Lagos State, which has left more than 30,000 people homeless and 11 dead, Amnesty International...

The Syrian government has used starvation as a method of warfare Armed opposition groups have also used sieges, bombardments and starvation to force thousands of civilians to leave their homes Report...

As US President Donald Trump prepares to meet leaders at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in the Philippines capital of Manila on 12 and 13 November, Amnesty is calling on him...

‘This is FIFA’s own independent human rights advisory board telling it to take a clear position on Qatar’s laws’ - James Lynch The world football body FIFA should act immediately on a series of...

“Expressing an opinion in a tweet is not a crime” - Cousin Zilala In response to a Zimbabwean court’s decision to grant bail to Martha O’Donovan, a US citizen who was detained last week after being...