Press Releases
More than 900 women travelled to England and Wales during same period ‘Significant gap’ between number of women legally allowed abortions in Northern Ireland and the number of women forced to travel...
Cambridge Amnesty groups will hold sombre event outside Great St Mary’s Church at 6pm on Friday 25 January Minute’s silence to be held at 6.41pm, time of last contact with murdered Italian PhD...
Responding to the ‘not guilty’ verdict issued today at the re-trial of Sudanese student activist, Asim Omar Hassan, who was originally sentenced to death for killing a police officer during protests...
“LGBT+ couples must not be made to pay the price of political failure. The Irish government must do all within its power to ensure that love wins” – joint statement The leaders of Ireland’s successful...
UK opposes ban, saying it would ‘prejudice legitimate technological advances’ ‘We need to act quickly to prevent the unleashing of this nightmarish new wave of weapons’ - Oliver Feeley-Sprague More...
Open Russia’s coordinator in Rostov-on-Don could face six years in jail as crackdown on human rights defenders intensifies The Russian authorities have for the first time used the repressive...
Government’s draft Domestic Abuse Bill falls short on protecting victims from perpetrators using immigration status as a ‘weapon to abuse’ ‘The Bill barely tinkers at the edges of what is necessary to...
New satellite images analysed by Amnesty International show the horrific aftermath of a Boko Haram attack that devastated the town of Rann, in the Borno State north-east Nigeria, displacing more than...
Amnesty calls for death threat to be lifted Amnesty International has condemned a death threat made against a Northern Ireland journalist, reportedly made by “criminal elements”, and called for the...
More killed as Sudanese security forces continue ‘deadly onslaught’ on protesters Amnesty has verified videos shared on social media of security forces opening fire on protesters Sudan’s security...