Amnesty International welcomed today’s decision taken by the Court of Appeal to overturn the Home Office’s plan to forcibly return three rejected Darfuri asylum seekers to the Sudanese capital...

Voluntary business code fails again as child exploitation continues in the 'chocolate fields' of West Africa With the Easter chocolate consumption frenzy just around the corner, Amnesty International...

Father Nguyen Van Ly, a 60-year-old Catholic priest in View Nam who helped set up an internet petition calling for democratic change, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for “conducting...

Amnesty International is concerned that activists from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) who will go on a job stay away action on 3 and 4 April 2007 are at risk of being beaten by police...

Amnesty International today (29 March 2007) warned that Scottish airports are failing to take appropriate steps to ensure that so-called "torture flights" are unable to land on Scottish soil. The move...

New call for UK government to act for UK residents at Guantánamo Bay Responding to today’s news that Bisher al-Rawi, a UK resident from Kingston-on Thames, is set to be released from the US military...

The Council voted yesterday (Tuesday) evening to endorse a policy drafted by Amnesty International to block any possible use of the Airport for so-called “torture flights”. The Council is instructing...

Amnesty International expressed outrage at events today in Zimbabwe, including the arrest of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The organisation called for an end to the...

A new Polish Ministry of Education anti-homosexuality proposal is strongly reminiscent of ‘Clause 28’ in Britain, known as Section 2A in Scotland, Amnesty International said today (23 March 2007). It...

A new Polish Ministry of Education anti-homosexuality proposal is strongly reminiscent of 'Clause 28' in Britain, Amnesty International said today. It is alarming that it comes amid recent threats...