Newly-released US government documents on mass killings in Indonesia in 1965 have provided new momentum for the authorities to reveal the truth about the atrocities that have been ignored for decades...

More countries need to increase their support for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, Amnesty International said today. The meeting of high-level representatives...

‘It is utterly outrageous that he was forced to spend a single minute of his young life behind bars’ - Najia Bounaim Today’s release of Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa is a resounding victory for those...

Amnesty International will be an intervenor in a significant Supreme Court case next week challenging Northern Ireland’s abortion law. Sarah Ewart, whose first pregnancy was given a fatal foetal...

Evdokia Romanova fined for posting links to Guardian and BuzzFeed LGBTI stories ‘The accusations against Evdokia Romanova and her trial were absurd’ - Denis Krivosheev The Russian authorities must...

The Australian civil engineering company Canstruct International Pty Ltd (‘Canstruct’) has taken on a highly-controversial contract to run facilities on Nauru where the Australian government has...

The Myanmar security forces’ targeted campaign of widespread and systematic murder, rape and burning has forced more than 530,000 Rohingya men, women and children from Rakhine State in a matter of...

The 11 activists, including Amnesty Turkey’s director and chair, face up to 15 years behind bars Allegations against 11 human rights activists, including Amnesty International Turkey's director and...

If execution of Amirhossein Pourjafar goes ahead it will be the fifth of a juvenile offender this year alone Pourjafar is one of more than 90 people on death row for crimes committed as children ‘The...

LONDON, MONDAY 23 OCTOBER 2017 Amnesty International is hosting a special performance of the play about the jailed British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at its east London headquarters on...