Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in
Saudi Arabia must lift 'completely arbitrary' travel ban on prominent human rights lawyer

Waleed Abu al-Khair stopped from travelling to New York A travel ban on a prominent Saudi Arabian human rights defender imposed just before he planned to attend a democracy course in the United States...

Amnesty unveils shortlist for Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year

Amnesty International UK today announced the shortlist for the 2012 Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year. This year’s competition attracted over 3,000 participants from 150 different schools from...

India: call for Balwant Singh's execution to be halted

The execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana must be halted and an official moratorium on capital punishment established in India, Amnesty International said today in an open letter to the country’

Syria: Kofi Annan mission should report on human rights

Amnesty has names of over 7,200 people now reported killed Any UN mission to supervise an end to armed violence in Syria must include as part of its work the monitoring and reporting of human rights...

Palestinian hunger-striker 'At risk of death' highlights injustice of administrative detention

The Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee or charge her with a recognisable criminal offence and promptly try her, Amnesty International said amid fears that the woman...

Mali: call on coup leaders to release arrested politicians

Leaders of the military coup against President Amadou Toumani Touré’s Malian government must release the prime minister and other politicians from custody and take steps to protect human rights...

Human trafficking in Scotland - Amnesty giving evidence to Equal Opportunities Committee

Amnesty International is today giving evidence on human trafficking to the Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee. In written evidence submitted ahead of the session , Amnesty has drawn...

Libya: NATO accused of failing to investigate civilian deaths from airstrikes - new report

Findings published exactly one year on from first airstrike operations NATO has failed to investigate the killing of scores of civilians in its airstrikes in Libya, Amnesty International said today...

Cuba: New Amnesty report reveals sharp rise in attacks against activists and journalists

Amnesty International today launched a new report revealing a huge jump in harassment and detention of political dissidents, human rights activists, journalists and bloggers across Cuba over the past...

Tanzania must end red ribbon 'stigmatisation' of HIV schoolChildren's rights

‘Stigmatising them in this manner and leaving them open to abuse is deeply misguided’ - Michael Bochenek Amnesty International has called for an end to the stigmatisation of those with HIV in Tanzania...