Responding to the tragic shipwreck off the coast of Steccato di Cutro, Italy, in which at least 62 migrants , including children, lost their lives, Eve Geddie, Amnesty International’s Europe Director...

Reacting to the signing of a communiqué by more than 30 countries in Costa Rica calling for international legal controls on killer robots , Agnès Callamard , Amnesty International’s Secretary General...

New Home Office statistics show asylum claims backlog topping 160,000 ‘Refusing asylum to people who have good claims by making unreasonable bureaucratic demands is a recipe for more injustice’ -...

Four activists in Wellingborough - including an 84-year-old - were arrested by Northants Police for protesting against felling of historically-important trees Local council has apparently condemned 61...

Responding to news that Shamima Begum has lost her appeal at the Special Immigration Appeals Tribunal over the stripping of her UK citizenship, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee...

Year on from start of Putin’s war of aggression, international justice mechanisms need greater support Tens of thousands of cases of war crimes have already been filed ‘The hands of Vladimir Putin and...

Trans woman and gay man convicted under article 230 of country’s penal code in December Pair were arrested along with six others in a police raid on 11 December ‘It is appalling and unacceptable that...

Andrei Pivovarov, former head of Open Russia group, ‘disappeared’ in Russia’s vast prisoner transportation system since 18 January Human rights defender sentenced to four years in a penal colony for...

M23 rebels killed at least twenty men and raped dozens of women and girls in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo Attacks were part of a campaign waged by M23 and may constitute crimes against...

Mass protests continue to sweep country Indigenous communities make up 80% of registered deaths since crisis began “Systemic racism has been the driving force behind the violence” - Erika Guevara...