Move comes week after a major Amnesty report on cobalt and child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘It is unacceptable that we have to name and shame companies before they act’ - Seema Joshi...

In response to news that the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to return close to one million Rohingya refugees currently in Bangladesh, Amnesty International’s Director...

Responding to news that the Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities have sent immigration officials armed with sticks and knives into the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island this morning, Kate...

Amnesty International has denounced the UK Government’s policy on British-born children be required to register their legal right to citizenship in the UK. Amnesty described the policy as...

Taner Kılıç is being held with 23 other people in an eight-person cell Kılıç and the ‘Istanbul 10’ still face up to 15 years on ‘trumped-up’ terrorism charges Responding to today’s decision by the...

Amnesty International has discovered “brutal” illegal torture equipment on sale at a Paris arms fair. Items uncovered include spiked batons, spiked electric-shock riot forks, electric-shock vests and...

Concerns raised over sieges in places like Eastern Ghouta ‘Unless human rights and accountability are put at the heart of the peace talks, a just and sustainable peace in Syria will remain elusive’ -...

Today’s conviction of the former Bosnian Serb war leader, former general Ratko Mladić, for crimes under international law - including genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes - has finally...

As trial of ‘Istanbul 10’ and Chair of Amnesty Turkey resumes, more than 70 signatories to open letter call for case against 11 human rights activists to be dropped Chair of Amnesty UK, Ruth Breddal...

Responding to the news that Robert Mugabe has resigned as President of Zimbabwe, Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: “After more than three decades of violent repression...