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USA: Latest school shooting must lead to ban on assault weapons

In reaction to Monday’s shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, Ernest Coverson, Amnesty International USA’s Director of Gun Violence Prevention, said: “The question we ask on a...

UK: Government is ‘bulldozing’ UK human rights - global human rights review

Amnesty’s global human rights report released Government is systematically dismantling core protections UK becoming a negative force for human rights on world stage ‘Britain needs to end this all-out...

Malaysia: Government makes historic move towards abolishing death sentence

In response to the introduction of bills to abolish the mandatory death penalty, Katrina Jorene Maliamauv, Amnesty International Malaysia’s Executive Director, said: “We welcome the Government's moves...

UK: Police must end ‘appalling’ use of strip searches against children

In response to findings announced today from the Children's Commissioner for England's report on police strip searching children, Ilyas Nagdee, Amnesty International UK’s Racial Justice Director, said...

France: Mass surveillance at 2024 Olympics is an 'all-out assault' on human rights

In response to the Fr ench National Assembly’s decision to permit the use of mass video surveillance technolog y powered by A rtificial I ntelligence during the 2024 Olympics, Mher H a kobyan, Amnesty...

UK: activists to stage 'Israel apartheid' protest as Netanyahu visits for talks

Small group of protesters with ‘End Israeli apartheid’ banner will be outside Downing St on Thursday afternoon as Israeli PM visits for talks with Rishi Sunak One activist in a Netanyahu face mask...

Israel/UK: Rishi Sunak should raise apartheid crimes during Netanyahu visit - letter

Amnesty UK head has written to PM pointing out ‘glaring inconsistencies’ in UK’s stance on international justice Growing human rights crisis under Netanyahu has met with only a muted UK response and...

Uganda: 'Appalling' anti-LGBTI law must be repealed immediately

Dubbed the ‘2023 Anti-Homosexuality Bill’, the law even criminalises those who ‘promote’ homosexuality or ‘attempt to commit the offence of homosexuality’ ‘This deeply repressive legislation will...

Russia: authorities step up 'witch-hunt' against Memorial with house raids

The Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation has been accused of ‘rehabilitating Nazism’ after compiling a list of victims of the Soviet era Memorial was closed down by the authorities in 2021 ‘They...

Amnesty calls for 'complete overhaul' of Met's ethics standards after damning review

Responding to the publication of Baroness Casey’s review into the conduct of the Metropolitan Police, Chiara Capraro, Amnesty International UK’s Women's Human Rights Manager, said: “The report’s...