The Burmese authorities’ restrictions on international aid reaching Rakhine State is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific...

The Cambodian authorities’ closure of the country’s longest-running English-language newspaper represents a new and disturbing escalation in the pre-election crackdown on government critics, Amnesty...

Newry’s Pride parade is to hear a call today (Saturday 2 September) for any new Northern Ireland Executive to be “a government for all the people”, after past failure to legislate for equal marriage...

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...

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...