Responding to reports that 700 migrants and refugees drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight, Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen said:

A week ahead of London Marathon, Dr Nicholl’s Washington stunt will highlight former UK resident’s plight as part of transatlantic campaign

“The document Gao Yu is accused of leaking…laid bare the Communist Party’s outright hostility to human rights, and for that she is being severely punished” - Willia

Torture of Adrián Vázquez part of country’s so-called ‘war on drugs’

Amnesty International has welcomed plans announced today by Northern Ireland's Department of Justice to reform abortion law in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities and has called for support for

Ahead of the latest leaders’ election debate from Central Hall, Westminster

Amnesty International today launched a new campaign calling on the leaders of all political parties to “do the human right thing” and protect the Human Rights Act.

The UK Government must investigate the British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto over a possible breach of EU economic sanctions on Burma, Amnesty International said ahead of the company’s

UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond praised country earlier this year