Press releases in 2024

Amnesty International UK is supporting a new touring exhibition from photographers and activists which aims to increase awareness about Israeli apartheid and raise funds for grassroots human rights...

World’s leading electric car manufacturers are failing to adequately demonstrate how they address risks in their mineral supply chains BYD, Mitsubishi and Hyundai scored worst, while Mercedes-Benz and...

Amnesty issues key human rights calls on asylum, Northern Ireland, arms to Israel, homelessness, and protests Sixty-three per cent of UK population think Government needs to commit to improving and...

On Tuesday 22 October (7-9pm), Amnesty International UK will host an in-conversation event at its east London offices with the family of Alaa Abdel Fattah, the UK national arbitrarily detained in...

One week left to respond to Angus McCullough KC call for evidence ‘ We now need answers to wider questions about the full extent of police use and misuse of secret surveillance powers in Northern...

Girls as young as nine could be forcibly married, and protections regarding divorce and inheritance potentially removed Urgent legal reforms are needed to protect Iraqi women and girls’ rights and...

Analysis of more than a dozen Israeli evacuation warnings show how Lebanese civilians were given contradictory information and exposed to heightened danger Some warnings issued in middle of night on...

Arrests take place as regional leaders meet in Laos to discuss the Myanmar crisis ‘Interrogation centres - where these two activists have likely been sent - are notorious locations of abuse where...

Executions more than tripled in 2023, while death sentences increased by 66% in the region Fresh call for abolition on World Day Against Death Penalty, with Kenya, Zimbabwe and Gambia leading the way...

Monday 7 October 2024 marks a year since the horrific attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and around 250 abducted. It also...