A new survey released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on young peoples’ attitudes towards refugees exposes just how out of touch governments are with their citizens, Amnesty International said today...

Following President Donald Trump’s signing of a new directive banning future transgender individuals serving in the US military, Tarah Demant, Amnesty International USA’s director of Gender, Sexuality...

An air strike which hit Faj Attan, a residential area of Yemen’s capital Sana’a in the early hours of this morning, destroying three homes, killing ten people and injuring seven more, shows that after...

In response to the guilty verdict in the coffin assault case by the Middleburg High Court earlier today, Shenilla Mohamed, Amnesty International South Africa Executive Director, said: “This hideous...

Responding to the attacks by Rohingya militants in Burma which have left at least 71 people, including 12 security personnel, dead, Josef Benedict, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns Director...

For the first time since the Supreme Court ruled against the state’s capital sentencing statute, Florida has executed a prisoner, killing Mark Asay via lethal injection. The execution happened late...

Quarterly migration report shows that 27,817 people were detained in the last year “The sheer numbers illustrate how the detention process has become normalised, when it ought to be an exceptional...

Reacting to the final report issued today by the Kofi Annan-led Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said: “People in...

Use the slider below to see satellite imagery showing devastation in Raqqa - June/July 2017 Thousands of civilians trapped in Raqqa in Syria are coming under fire from three different sides, said...

The Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and their rivals, the de facto Hamas administration in Gaza, have both launched a clampdown on dissent in recent months that has seen journalists from...