More than two million people who have fled fighting in northwestern Pakistan do not have access to aid distributed in official displacement camps, Amnesty International warned today. Ethnic Pashtuns...

Representatives from Amnesty International, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will this afternoon petition the Gambian High Commission in London to put a stop...

Amnesty International today (3 July) welcomed the Home Office’s agreement to issue a travel document to Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a stateless Palestinian refugee who is under a Control Order. Subject to the...

Call for Goldstone United Nations inquiry to be supported Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of...

Amnesty International today said that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya must be able to return to Honduras immediately, without conditions and safely. Kerrie Howard, Americas Deputy director at Amnesty...

Amnesty challenges new Shell CEO to make good in his first 100 days “If you want to go fishing, you have to paddle for about four hours through several rivers before you can get to where you can catch...

Ongoing human rights abuses in Chechnya, Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus “lend the lie” to claims made by the Russia authorities that the region is generally reverting to “normal”...

Appeals for release of award-winning journalist A new report from Amnesty International today details assaults, harassment, intimidation and imprisonment of independent journalists in Azerbaijan. The...

Call on the Iranian authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with the protestors Amnesty International is gravely concerned that several opposition leaders detained in the wake of the 12 June...

Call on the Iranian authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with the protestors The Iranian authorities must immediately release dozens of journalists arrested since 12 June and who are at risk...