Amnesty International is calling for an investigation after dozens of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights were reportedly injured in Yemen’s second-largest city yesterday when...

Five years after Anna Politkovskaya’s murder ‘climate of impunity’ hampers investigations Five years after the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, little progress has been made to increase the safety of...

Film - ahead of World Day Against Death Penalty (10 Oct) - is part of campaign to stop stoning in Iran The Anglo-Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi has launched a new film that mocks Iran’s laws on...

Responding to public comments made by Northern Ireland Junior Ministers Jonathan Bell and Martina Anderson, Tim Hancock, Campaigns Director, Amnesty International UK, said: “Amnesty International has...

The death of a teenage protester in Bahrain last night must be independently investigated and the findings made public, Amnesty International has said today. Ahmed al-Jaber al-Qatan, 16, was shot...

Last month Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued statements following the killing and mutilation by unknown persons of a woman in Syria believed to be Zaynab al-Hosni. Zaynab had...

Amnesty experts available for interview on or before 7 October ‘anniversary’ Almost ten years after a US-led military invasion removed the Taleban from Afghanistan, the Afghan government and its...

Others tried before military court should also get new hearings The decision by the Bahrain’s Public Prosecutor to order the re-trial of 20 medics before a civilian court is an important step towards...

Permanent members of the Security Council that used their veto yesterday to block a binding resolution on Syria have utterly failed in their responsibilities to protect the Syrian people, Amnesty...

Responding to the speech given by the Home Secretary at the Conservative Party Conference today Tara Lyle, Policy Adviser at Amnesty International UK, said: “Theresa May is tangling herself up in...