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“A further blow to women from Northern Ireland”: Amnesty response to Supreme Court ruling against access to abortion via NHS

Amnesty International has called a decision of the UK Supreme Court today that women from Northern Ireland are not entitled to free abortion care within the NHS in England as “a further blow to women...

Northern Ireland: Mother and Baby Home victims call for public inquiry

Women who were forced to give birth in Mother and Baby Homes in Northern Ireland, and children who were born in the homes, are calling today for a public inquiry into abuses they say they suffered...

Tunisia: man jailed for smoking during Ramadan

Four others in town of Bizerte jailed for eating in public during Ramadan ‘Failing to conform to religious and social customs is not a criminal offence’ - Heba Morayef The Tunisian authorities’...

Hungary: New NGO law a 'vicious and calculated' assault on civil society

The passing of a law stigmatising non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that receive foreign funding is the latest in an escalating crackdown on critical voices and will hamper vital work by civil...

UN highlights the shame of Ireland's harsh abortion laws

A ruling issued today by the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) that Ireland’s harsh abortion laws violated the human rights of an Irish woman is yet another reminder of the desperate need for reform...

Malawi: new wave of killings and attacks against people with albinism

Criminal justice failings fuel new wave of attacks in 2017 Mercy, a 31-year-old woman with albinism, was found dead with her hand, right breast and hair removed The world marks International Albinism...

Amnesty calls on next UK government to commit to abortion reform in Northern Ireland

"The UK Government has a responsibility to deliver abortion rights for women in Northern Ireland. A failure to do so would be a cruel betrayal of women." – Grainne Teggart The call comes ahead of a...

USA: after another court defeat, Trump should drop 'discriminatory' Muslim travel ban

Following a ruling earlier today by a US appeals court upholding a block on a revised travel ban which President Trump’s government had attempted to introduce, Margaret Huang, Amnesty International...

Russia: mass protest arrests show authorities' 'stranglehold' on free expression

‘The right to peaceful assembly is guaranteed by the Russian Constitution, though you wouldn’t know it from the alarming scenes today’ - Denis Krivosheev A crackdown on peaceful protests across Russia...

Pakistan: Death sentence for 'blasphemy' in Facebook case must be quashed

Responding to an anti-terrorism court’s decision to convict and sentence to death a man for allegedly posting content on Facebook deemed to be ‘blasphemous’, Amnesty International’s Pakistan...