The threat of prosecution against the medical profession in Northern Ireland to make abortion referrals to the UK has been lifted, Amnesty International has said today. The Director of Public...

Report details ‘disastrous decline’ in human rights in last year Amnesty writes to minister Alistair Burt after Bahrainis in Gulf targeted following peaceful protests outside Downing Street and...

***Please be advised quotes include offensive language*** “It’s the volume of it which makes it so debilitating, so corrosive, and so upsetting.” - Diane Abbott MP, in new Amnesty video “It’s time...

The statement by Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s office, claiming that the government is defending all the people in Rakhine State “in the best possible way”, is unconscionable, Amnesty...

Authorities have blocked 424 websites since May in ‘wave of digital censorship’ ‘It looks like human rights NGOs are set to be the next target’ - Najia Bounaim Responding to the news today that the...

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi should use his official visit to Burma today to urge the authorities to protect civilians in violence-hit Rakhine State and lift restrictions on international...

Issa Amro detained after criticising earlier arrest of radio journalist, as free speech crackdown intensifies ‘It is outrageous that a prominent human rights defender has been arrested simply for...

Amnesty International and Liberty are calling on MPs to add a ‘People’s Clause’ to the Withdrawal Bill to stop ministers stripping away vital rights protections as they rewrite UK laws after Brexit...

The Burmese authorities’ restrictions on international aid reaching Rakhine State is putting tens of thousands of lives at risk in a region where mainly Rohingya people are already suffering horrific...

The Cambodian authorities’ closure of the country’s longest-running English-language newspaper represents a new and disturbing escalation in the pre-election crackdown on government critics, Amnesty...