Responding to the outcome early this morning of the EU leaders meeting on the refugee crisis, John Dalhuisen, Director of Amnesty International’s Europe programme, said:

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has failed to include an explicit requirement to respect and protect human rights in the Host City Contract for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics pu

‘It is ludicrous that some of these people were ever behind bars in the first place’ - Said Boumedouha

240 executions carried out this year

Concern over consent and coercion in relocation schemes Call for EU support to improve conditions in reception centres

Satellite images show how the razor-wire fence was completed in just two days and caused an immediate bottleneck

‘They’ve kept me out, but the question is: what has DSEi got to hide?’ - Oliver Sprague

A gay couple will get married in Belfast on Friday evening in front of hundreds of well-wishers, despite law-makers at Stormont blocking the right of same-sex couples to wed in Northern Ireland.

The Ukrainian government’s decision to ban dozens of foreign journalists from entering the country on the grounds that

Amnesty International today welcomed protection orders issued by the Supreme Court of India that recognise the vulnerability of a Dalit family from Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, who fled their village fe