According to Irish Senator David Norris, Ireland, north and south, is “nearly there” in terms of achieving equality for gay people. Senator Norris, a prominent human rights campaigner in the Republic...

Amnesty International has condemned a 15-year prison sentence reportedly imposed on a Uighur journalist who warned the Chinese authorities about potential ethnic violence in Xinjiang province on the...

Amnesty International today (23 July) welcomed the guilty verdict this morning by a Dutch court against the multinational company, Trafigura, for delivering hazardous waste to Amsterdam while...

As Gambia celebrates ‘Freedom Day’ today (22 July), Amnesty International is calling on the Gambian authorities to release journalist Ebrima Manneh. Ebrima Manneh was arrested in July 2006 by...

The Jammu and Kashmir state government must immediately end the preventive detention of the leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Amnesty International said today. Mian Abdul...

Amnesty International is urging parliament to reject a government proposal that would hamper arrest warrants being issued for suspected war criminals and torturers visiting the UK, warning that it...

Amnesty International has called on the Chadian authorities to arrest wanted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and surrender him to the International Criminal Court, after it was reported that he...

Amnesty International has urged the Kenyan authorities to investigate the death of a market trader, reportedly shot dead by police during a protest against forced evictions in a Nairobi settlement...

Amnesty International welcomes the announcement made by the Home Secretary and Minister for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Equality, Theresa May MP, to further extend...

‘Peace without justice or human rights is not real peace’ - Sam Zarifi Plans for a peace deal with the Taleban in Afghanistan could seriously jeopardise the rights of the Afghan people, in particular...