Amnesty International and the Student Action for Refugees (STAR) will be linking the Home Office and the Department for Education with a giant paper chain on Thursday 30 March and presenting a 30,000...

‘Dr Nasser bin Ghaith is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned for the peaceful expression of his conscientiously-held beliefs’ - Lynn Maalouf In response to the sentencing today of the Emirati human...

In response to the killing of two UN experts in Kasai Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the...

Date marks 80 th anniversary of arrival in UK of some of the first refugees to play professional football here, after bombing of Guernica during Spanish Civil War Football clubs across the country...

“Tens of thousands of people who cross the border on a daily basis for work, education and family purposes must be given guarantees that their rights are not going to be diminished.” – Patrick...

Jordan must immediately arrest Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir and hand him over to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, said...

Amnesty International UK is calling on the Government to use the triggering of Article 50 as an opportunity to promote its commitment to human rights, by making it clear rights will be prioritised...

Scale of civilian deaths raises questions over rules of engagement being used by US-led coalition and Iraqi forces ‘Did the government, the coalition think how to protect the civilians in this war? It...

Hundreds arrested without charge and held in torturous conditions South Sudanese authorities must release all people detained without charge by the security agencies, including 28 men currently held...

Amnesty witnessed riot police forcing people down a staircase and beating teenagers in the street Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and all peaceful protesters detained after the mass...