Amnesty urges United Nations to stop accepting Burma’s ‘hollow promises’ and backs London demonstration Twenty years after the start of pro-democracy demonstrations in Burma that were violently...

Amnesty International today welcomed the unblocking of its website in the Olympics media venues and reportedly in other parts of Beijing. But it insisted that the promise of ‘complete media freedom’...

Amnesty International Scotland DIARY NOTICE and PHOTO-OPPORTUNITY: Friday 8 August, 12.30-1.00pm EDINBURGH: BURMA DEMO TO MARK 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF UPRISING Campaigners to hold aloft saffron ribbon in...

Thousands of Mexican Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who survive violence in their homes are being put at risk of further abuse by a justice system that often fails to take...

Amnesty International today condemned the Chinese authorities’ blocking of certain websites for foreign journalists covering the Olympic Games. The organisation called on the International Olympic...

Amnesty International has welcomed the UN Secretary-General's decision to appoint Judge Navenethem Pillay as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The organisation believes that Judge Pillay...

The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country’s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, said Amnesty International in a new report published...

As the Zimbabwean government and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) prepare to enter power-sharing talks, Amnesty International called on both parties to ensure there are no pardons...

Amnesty International UK today said it was ‘appalled’ at the findings of new research from the Jospeh Rowntree Charitable Trust, showing a massive rise in destitution among refused asylum seekers...

Amnesty International has condemned the South African police’s recent forcible removals of more than 700 refugees and asylum-seekers from the Glenanda ("Rifle Range Road") displacement camp near...