Press Releases
Journalist included in leaked secret service memo A leaked list – believed to be compiled by the Sri Lankan intelligence unit – has revealed the names of 35 leading journalists and NGO officers of...
Responding to today’s publication of a review by Baroness Stern into how rape is dealt with by the police in England and Wales, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “We welcome Baroness...
‘There’s a climate of fear among my family members, the neighbours and my friends, who do not dare to visit us’ - former prisoner Abdelkarim Harouni Amnesty International called on Tunisia’s President...
Woman in same case hanged yesterday Amnesty International has made an urgent personal appeal to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to prevent the execution of a man who is believed to have been wrongly...
Celebrities including Keira Knightley, Annie Lennox, James Purefoy and Beverley Knight have called on the UK Government to make maternal and newborn health a priority in its international development...
Amnesty International has called for the promised investigation into the alleged killing by Kenyan police of seven men to be impartial, independent and for the results to be made public. On Wednesday...
Insurgent groups must end the policy of targeting international and national humanitarian agencies which are trying to provide help and assistance to Pakistan’s poor, said Amnesty International today...
In a new report released today (11 March) Amnesty International calls on the Italian authorities to halt a controversial housing plan that has resulted in the forced eviction of hundreds of Roma and...
Campaigners say 'Every Day Should be Mother's Day' They may be political rivals at the forthcoming Westminster election but some of Northern Ireland's leading Women's rights's rightss rights's rights...
Amnesty International has today (12 March) called on President Obama to urgently establish an Office of Maternal Health to tackle soaring pregnancy-related complications and maternal deaths in the...