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Venezuela: Ban on protests may lead to mass human rights violations

The security plan announced in Venezuela ahead of the elections for the Constituent Assembly this Sunday is laying the groundwork for a new wave of mass human rights violations, Amnesty International...

UK/Turkey: Boris Johnson calls for release of jailed activists, including Amnesty staff

‘The global outcry over Turkey’s human rights crackdown is growing louder by the day’ - Kate Allen Amnesty UK has welcomed a call from UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for the release of detained...

Israeli forces attack peaceful crowds of Palestinians at al-Aqsa mosque

‘Israeli forces started firing stun grenades, tear gas and sponge-tipped bullets into a peaceful crowd’ - Magdalena Mughrabi Israeli forces attacked peaceful crowds of Palestinians as they gathered at...

Pakistan: 'Horrific' revenge rape order must prompt urgent reforms

The rape of a teenage girl ordered by a Pakistan village council in ‘revenge’ for a rape allegedly committed by her brother is the latest in a long series of horrific incidents and must lead to urgent...

UK: 50 years since homosexuality decriminalised, still a long way to go to equality, warns Amnesty

Fifty years on from the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, there is still a long way to go to achieve full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...

Trump's ban on transgender people in military is 'based on bigotry'

Following tweets from President Donald Trump announcing that the USA would no longer allow transgender individuals to serve in the country’s military, Tarah Demant, director of Amnesty International...

UK: petrol/diesel car ban - child labourers 'must not pay the price'

Car manufacturers must be more transparent to ensure supply chains are not tainted by human rights abuses Responding to the UK Government’s commitment to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans...

Turkish foreign minister's allegations threaten country's human rights movement

‘It is hard to see how the … wider human rights movement in Turkey can continue to function’ - John Dalhuisen Responding to statements made by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu at a press...

Vietnam: 'outrageous' jailing of land rights activist is latest in growing crackdown

Trần Thị Nga sentenced to nine years for ‘conducting propaganda against the state’ Is second women’s rights activist jailed in a month, with more than 90 prisoners of conscience now languishing in...

EU: Mogherini urged to raise issue of jailed activists with Turkish minister

Salil Shetty meets Mogherini ahead of her meeting with Turkey Ministers Nearly 900,000 call on Mogherini to release jailed activists Major public stunt demands end to human rights crackdown “ We will...