Press Releases
Hundreds of millions of people expected to mark Earth Day this year Severe environmental, health and human rights consequences due to the climate crisis ‘We are not moving fast enough to prevent a...
Sixty-eight-year-old Londoner will receive ‘Spirit of the London Marathon’ award tomorrow Ashoori, competing for second time in seven months after being freed from prison, will run in solidarity with...
President Yoweri Museveni must urgently veto the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill which criminalises consensual same-sex conduct in Uganda, Amnesty International said today. Tomorrow (21 April)...
Group of 104 organisations sign open letter urging UN to avoid flawed IHRA definition Legitimate criticism of Israel’s human rights policies must not be suppressed, they say ‘The UN’s adoption or...
In response to the Government’s plan to ignore ECHR rulings could be written into the Immigration Bill, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: “The...
‘By forming the APPG, MPs and peers are sending a strong message to the US administration’ - Sara Birch A newly-formed group of parliamentarians is set to campaign for the closure of the notorious US...
More than 100 people killed, over 600 injured and tens of thousands displaced Indiscriminate shelling has caused significant damage to homes, hospitals, schools and mosques ‘My daughter was buried in...
In response to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s speech marking the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement’s 25th anniversary at Queen’s University Belfast today, Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International UK’s...
Following the outbreak of armed conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), an independent paramilitary force, which erupted on the morning of Saturday 15 April in...
‘This verdict wrongly conflates human rights activism with high treason and is reminiscent of Stalin-era repression’ - Natalia Zviagina Responding to news that the British-Russian political activist...