Press Releases

Amnesty International UK today reacted to news that the Church of England is to disinvest from UK-based FTSE 100 company Vedanta Resources. Amnesty International UK Economic Relations Programme...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s failure to make an assessment of Israeli and Palestinian investigations into violations of international law during the conflict in Gaza and southern Israel a year...

Amnesty International is calling on the UK government and the Northern Ireland Executive to uphold victims' rights by ensuring there is an effective inquiry into the extent of child abuse in State run...

On 2 February, in a letter to the Czech Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Miroslava Kopicová, Amnesty International, the European Roma Rights Centre and the Open Society Justice Initiative...

The United Nations should urge Nicaragua to repeal its ban on abortion after it reviews the country’s human rights record next Monday [8 February], said Amnesty International. During the United...

Responding to news that Strathclyde Police officials will meet on Thursday 4 February to discuss the supply of Taser weapons to more police officers, Amnesty International said that it was "dismayed"...

Israel’s latest response to the UN on its investigations into alleged violations of international law by its forces in Gaza a year ago is totally inadequate, Amnesty International has said. The...

Amnesty International has launched a campaign for 11 students jailed in Morocco after they protested for better conditions and greater freedom of speech at their university. The 11 students - Zohra...

The government of Papua New Guinea must investigate the conduct of police who burnt down homes and threatened people with guns while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the biggest gold...

New Assembly Government Strategy expected Drastic improvements needed say campaigners Campaigners today (1st Feb) say that Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Wales have one...