Press releases in 2023

10,000 families reportedly forced to leave their homes around temple complex denied adequate shelter, food and water ‘I choose to go with fear’ – resident of Angkor Wat UNESCO says it did not call for...

Yok* called for country’s notorious lèse-majesté law to be scrapped during a protest Approaching 2,000 people detained for taking part in protests since 2020 ‘This development is yet one more...

Move by Pacific Island state of Vanuatu gains wide support In response to the UN General Assembly today calling on the International Court of Justice to provide an authoritative opinion on countries’...

In December, Amnesty alerted Google’s Threat Analysis Group to counter the attacks Billions of users of Android, Chrome and Linux were protected from spyware threats ‘We urgently need a global...

In response to Home Office plans to house people seeking asylum in disused cruise ships, barges and barracks, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said...

In response to the devastating fire at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico where at least 40 migrants have died, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas Director, said:...

In reaction to Monday’s shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Ernest Coverson, Amnesty International USA’s Director of Gun Violence Prevention, said: “The question we ask on a...

Amnesty’s global human rights report released Government is systematically dismantling core protections UK becoming a negative force for human rights on world stage ‘Britain needs to end this all-out...

In response to the introduction of bills to abolish the mandatory death penalty, Katrina Jorene Maliamauv, Amnesty International Malaysia’s Executive Director, said: “We welcome the Government's moves...

In response to findings announced today from the Children's Commissioner for England's report on police strip searching children, Ilyas Nagdee, Amnesty International UK’s Racial Justice Director, said...