Amnesty International UK has welcomed today’s recommendation by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee that compensation for victims of Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) should progress as quickly...

The UN’s top human rights body will tomorrow (Thursday 11 July) vote on a resolution to address serious human rights violations and crimes under international law committed in the Philippine...

Letter comes after TripAdvisor appears to deny any responsibility in listing properties in settlements The US travel company promotes more than 70 attractions, tours, restaurants, cafés, hotels and...

MPs vote through landmark bill which extends equal marriage to Northern Ireland and forces UK Government to legislate for abortion reform ‘Today’s a day for the history books’ - Patrick Corrigan Today...

Responding to remarks by Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam on Tuesday that the controversial Extradition Bill is “dead” and that there would be no high-level independent investigation into the...

Mohamed Ajlani Younes, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, is at risk of imminent deportation after being stranded in Turkey’s Istanbul Airport for more than six weeks, Amnesty International reported...

Following today’s International Criminal Court conviction of Bosco Ntaganda, former leader of an armed opposition group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, for war crimes and crimes against humanity...

European Court of Human Rights’ Grand Chamber to consider UK’s bulk surveillance powers for first time ‘We need to be protected from intrusive and over-powerful states that think nothing of secretly...

Three years on, extrajudicial executions by police remain rampant Amnesty International is calling for urgent investigation into Duterte’s murderous “war on drugs” Police in the Philippines are...

Responding to the news that a power-sharing deal has been reached between Sudan’s military leaders and the opposition party, Kumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: “The devil...