Press releases in 2018

Morgan Tsvangirai was a courageous politician who also stood up for human rights for the people of Zimbabwe, often at personal cost, Amnesty International said following the death of the opposition...

‘Our leaders must take action to protect people from gun violence’ - Margaret Huang Responding to the school shooting in Parkland in the US state of Florida last night, Margaret Huang, Executive...

‘During Jacob Zuma’s presidency, South Africa was blighted by serious human rights violations’ - Shenilla Mohamed Responding to the news that Jacob Zuma has resigned as the president of South Africa...

Video posted to Twitter by Armed Forces shows internationally-banned US-made cluster munitions being loaded for use in Sinai operation ‘Cluster bombs are inherently indiscriminate weapons that inflict...

Commenting after Ethiopian journalist and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience Eskinder Nega walked out of prison a free man today, as part of a government pardon of 746 prisoners, Sarah...

Responding to a Court of Appeal judgement that two Niger Delta communities cannot have their case against oil giant Shell heard in the UK because the parent company cannot be held liable for the...

Legislation would require NGOs to ask permission to perform their ‘basic functions’ – a process which could take up to nine months NGOs would be forced to pay a 25% tax on foreign donations A new bill...

The Indonesian authorities are failing to protect the transgender women who were publicly humiliated by police in North Aceh last month, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty’s Indonesia office...

Commenting on reports that James Gatdet Dak, the former spokesman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – In Opposition, has been sentenced to death for treason, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty...

Canadian-Iranian environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami is just the latest suspicious ‘suicide’ in detention ‘It would have been near impossible for him to commit suicide’ - Magdalena Mughrabi In...