Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in
Australia: High Court intervention on 'dangerous' Sri Lanka asylum boat handovers

Amnesty International today expressed relief that Australian High Court deliberations have put the transfer of asylum seekers to Sri Lanka's Navy in doubt.

Kincora Boys’ Home should be included in new UK child abuse inquiry

Amnesty International in Northern Ireland has called for the inclusion of Belfast’s Kincora Boys’ Home in the inquiry into historical child sex abuse announced today by Home Secretary T

Pope's meeting with clerical sex abuse victims prompts renewed call for Northern Ireland inquiry

Amnesty International has welcomed today’s comments by Pope Francis regarding child sex abuse by priests and called for an inquiry into such abuse in Northern Ireland.

India: Migrant workers exploited and abused in Saudi Arabia

The lack of effective regulation of visa brokers and rogue recruiting agents make Indian migrant workers vulnerable to exploitation and abuse, Amnesty International said today in a new report focus

Thailand: First conviction of anti-coup protester condemned

Today’s guilty verdict in the case of a peaceful anti-coup protester in Thailand sets a dangerous precedent for freedom of assembly and contributes to a growing climate of fear under military

Egypt: one year on from Morsi, country is 'failing at every level' in terms of human rights

1,247 death sentences handed down so far this year, 247 upheld Reports of 80 deaths in police custody

Iraq: thousands fleeing ISIS and expected government air strikes blocked by Kurdish authorities

'Thousands of frightened civilians have left their homes and their lives behind only to find themselves stranded on the streets’ - Donatella Rovera

Hong Kong: Mass arrests of peaceful protesters as media asked to leave

The Hong Kong authorities must release all those detained solely for peacefully protesting in pro-democracy demonstrations, Amnesty International said, after more than 500 people were arrested by p

UAE: call for release of nine prisoners of conscience a year after mass show trial

‘The only reason these nine individuals are behind bars is because they dared to call for peaceful democratic reform’ - Said Boumedouha