Amnesty International Scotland strongly welcomes this afternoon's debate by MSPs on the Arms Treaty, taking place at 5pm today (Thursday 21 June). Watching the debate will be David Grimason, who...

In response to news that Northern Ireland man Liam Holden, the last person to be sentenced to death in the United Kingdom, has had his conviction quashed after a court heard that the confession was...

More than 150 school pupils and university students from across the UK will today travel to Westminster to urge the government to deliver a robust international Arms Treaty. Students and school pupils...

On Wednesday 20 June, pupils and students from Shimna Integrated College, Newcastle, Co. Down and Queen’s University, Belfast will travel to Westminster to join 150 other youth delegates from across...

Hundreds of the men and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who flee each year to Cyprus in search of refuge and asylum from war, persecution and poverty are locked away by the...

“I am at a stage when I envy those parents who find their Children's rights’s corpses.” - Boris Ozdoev, father of a forcibly disappeared man Russian authorities must clampdown on law enforcement...

A string of arrests of activists, writers, lawyers, and bloggers mainly in the Omani capital Muscat constitutes an attack on freedom of expression and assembly that must be halted, Amnesty...

On Wednesday 20 June, students and school pupils, including some as young as 13, will travel from Scotland to urge the Foreign Office Minister of the urgent need for an international legally-binding...

The High Criminal Court of Appeal in Manama has upheld the conviction of nine health professionals tried for their role in anti-government protests last year, prompting Amnesty International to call...

A Palestinian footballer who is at risk of death after more than 90 days on hunger strike in protest against his detention by Israel should immediately be admitted to a civilian hospital or released...