‘I was brutally beaten, hit on the head and body with a metal pipe. Both my legs were broken and I spent more than a month in hospital’ - activist Vasiliy Guslyannikov ‘The authorities have been...

Responding to Attorney General Jeff Sessions announcing that victims of domestic abuse and gang violence will no longer qualify for asylum in the United States of America, Denise Bell, researcher for...

Security forces have tortured people, including children, by beating, electrocuting and burning “They beat us with shovels, hammers, planks, and cables, kicked us with their boots and poured hot water...

'The men, women and children aboard the Aquarius have risked their lives on perilous seas to escape horrific abuses in Libya' - Elisa De Pieri As the SOS Méditerranée rescue ship, MV Aquarius remains...

Amnesty, Liberty and Stonewall urge MPs to protect key rights for everyone in the UK Commons vote on EU Withdrawal Bill could be last chance to prevent existing human rights protections being watered...

Responding to comments made by Prime Minister Theresa May on abortion legislation in the UK late last night, Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland Campaigns Manager for Amnesty International UK, said: "It...

Today (8 June), the International Criminal Court (ICC) acquitted Jean-Pierre Bemba Gombo, the former Vice-President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, for his involvement in the conflict in Central...

At least 44 people - including children - killed in suspected Russian airstrike on town of Zardana Victims were breaking the Ramadan fast and hit in what was reportedly a notorious ‘double-tap’ strike...

The UK Supreme Court’s ruling that Northern Ireland’s abortion law is a violation of women’s human rights must force the UK Government to urgently legislate for change, Amnesty International said...

Taner Kılıç was arrested on 6 June 2017 on a charge of ‘belonging to a terrorist organisation’ Detention demonstrates the Turkish authorities ‘cold-blooded pursuit of anyone deemed to oppose them’ –...