The soaring death toll in the central Mediterranean and the horrific abuses faced by thousands of refugees and migrants in Libyan detention centres are clearly linked to failing EU policies, said...

The decades-long prison sentence handed a 19-year-old rape survivor in El Salvador after she suffered pregnancy-related complications is a terrifying example of the need the country to urgently repeal...

Two decades of attacks on political opponents, independent journalists and human rights activists have created a climate of fear in Rwanda ahead of next month’s election, Amnesty International warned...

Human rights activist Idil Eser held along with nine others after workshop raided ‘This is the first time in our history that Amnesty International has a director and chair from a single country both...

‘A continuation of present policies would have disastrous consequences for the people of Syria’ - Samah Hadid The lives of millions of Syrian civilians hang in the balance as Donald Trump and Vladimir...

Responding to the news that Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty International Turkey, was detained yesterday (July 5) along with seven other human rights defenders, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK...

Responding to the news that Idil Eser, Director of Amnesty International Turkey, was detained on Wednesday along with seven other human rights defenders and two trainers during a digital security and...

‘President Xi Jinping must do the right thing and order his immediate release’ - Salil Shetty The Chinese authorities are demonstrating a new form of cruelty by preventing Liu Xiaobo from leaving the...

Ebtisam al-Saegh taken away from her home by 25 masked officers shortly before midnight Shortly before her arrest she’d been tweeting about by security agents’ ill-treatment of women Amnesty...

“It is deeply ironic that every government in the UK has now pledged to address the injustice facing women from Northern Ireland, except the failed administration at Stormont” – Patrick Corrigan...