Press releases in 2019

Discriminatory measure comes into force today In response to President Trump’s transgender military ban going into effect today, Tarah Demant, Amnesty International USA’s Gender, Sexuality and...

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision not to authorise an investigation into crimes committed in Afghanistan under international law marks a shocking abandonment of victims and will...

Responding to reports that Brunei’s foreign minister, Erywan Yusof, has claimed that the punishments contained in the country’s newly-introduced Shariah Penal Code are ‘preventive’, Stephen Cockburn...

Amnesty experts observed 28 asylum cases in San Diego earlier this week Courts have recently struck down the controversial ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy ‘I don’t feel safe to be here’ - Honduran man...

Amnesty International has welcomed a letter from the Joint Committee on Human Rights to the UK Government sent today (11 April), raising serious concerns about current shortfalls in the draft Domestic...

If Sweden pursues extradition over rape allegation, there should be assurances over not sending Assange to USA Following the arrest of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy...

Amnesty International calls on the Sudanese authorities to turn al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court Responding to the ousting of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir in a military coup...

Country’s highly restrictive abortion laws to be reformed by end of 2020 Spotlight on UK Government to reform Northern Ireland abortion law as UK slips “further and further behind on women’s rights” –...

Award-winning human rights defender is more than three weeks into protest at his unjust ten-year jail sentence ‘Ahmed Mansoor should never have been tried and imprisoned in the first place’ - Lynn...

Travel company announced last year it would remove listings ‘at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians’ Move ‘exposes the hollowness of their claims to be a company that values...