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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In response to the guilty verdict in the coffin assault case by the Middleburg High Court earlier today, Shenilla Mohamed, Amnesty International South Africa Executive Director, said: “This hideous...