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DRC: government must deliver on pledge to end child mining labour by 2025

For the first time, the DRC has acknowledged that children are working in artisanal cobalt mines New government strategy responds directly to findings uncovered by Amnesty This commitment must not be...

Giant birthday card to be delivered to Iranian Embassy for British grandfather jailed in Iran

Table with a 78-candle birthday cake will be set up outside the embassy Candles to be blown out by campaigners wishing for businessman’s release Campaigners will take a giant birthday card and...

Kenya: election ruling 'sets an example for the rest of the world'

Responding to the Kenyan Supreme Court’s decision today (1 September) to annul last month’s presidential election and order a re-run, Justus Nyang’aya, Country Director at Amnesty International Kenya...

Branson siblings get behind Give a Home and secure Ed Sheeran and Emeli Sandé for the line up

1,000 musicians will perform on 20 September for Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds ’ global refugee solidarity concerts: Give a Home Holly and Sam Branson will be teaming up with major artists...

Bangladesh must provide safety to Rohingya refugees

Responding to the news that 18,000 members of the predominantly Muslim Rohingya community have fled fighting in Burma to seek safety across the border in Bangladesh, Amnesty International’s South Asia...

Sudan: Dr Mudawi released after eight months of wrongful imprisonment

Reacting to news that Sudanese human rights defender Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been released from prison and all charges against him dropped, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional...

Syria: Tens of thousands of disappeared must not be forgotten

Some 75,000 people subjected to enforced disappearance by the Syrian government since 2011 Amnesty launch online platform for families of those abducted “There has been total impunity for those...

Governments out of touch on refugees, World Economic Forum survey reveals

A new survey released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on young peoples’ attitudes towards refugees exposes just how out of touch governments are with their citizens, Amnesty International said today...

Trump’s military transgender policy is cruel and discriminatory

Following President Donald Trump’s signing of a new directive banning future transgender individuals serving in the US military, Tarah Demant, Amnesty International USA’s director of Gender, Sexuality...

Yemen: UN must respond as five children killed in night of horror

An air strike which hit Faj Attan, a residential area of Yemen’s capital Sana’a in the early hours of this morning, destroying three homes, killing ten people and injuring seven more, shows that after...