Press releases in 2021

Council of Europe Commissioner on Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic, has written to the NI Secretary of State over UK government plans to introduce a ‘broad based and unconditional’ amnesty for NI...

In response to today’s Global Covid-19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better, where US President Biden and EU President Von der Leyen announced new commitments to donate an additional...

AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer refuse to participate in initiatives to boost global vaccine supply Fewer than 1% of people in low-income countries fully...

-Richard Ratcliffe will invite MPs to join him and his daughter Gabriella for photographs standing on various squares of the board ‘We remain caught in a game between governments’ - Richard Ratcliffe...

Computer designer Idris Hasan has been held at China’s request for two months China has well-documented record of persecution of Uyghurs at home and abroad “I fear that if my husband is sent back to...

Hotelier turned opposition politician given 25-year jail sentence Rusesabagina famous for saving lives of 1,200 people during country’s 1994 genocide ‘Fair trial violations in the case were a...

Last year at least ten women were murdered every day in Mexico Families of victims left to investigate murders due to significant police failings ‘The authorities did not help us to search, they did...

At the time of the attack the Pentagon said ‘no military on the face of the Earth works harder to avoid civilian casualties’ Call for remedy for decades of civilian casualties from US military...

Davis was executed in US state of Georgia on 21 September 2011 ‘We are still Troy Davis’: special online Amnesty UK event to recall the worldwide campaign to save his life Amnesty International UK...

Council of Europe report critical of failure to combat violence against women, gender inequality and LGBTI discrimination Government’s near total ban on abortion, lack of protection for victims of...