The Australian civil engineering company Canstruct International Pty Ltd (‘Canstruct’) has taken on a highly-controversial contract to run facilities on Nauru where the Australian government has...

The Myanmar security forces’ targeted campaign of widespread and systematic murder, rape and burning has forced more than 530,000 Rohingya men, women and children from Rakhine State in a matter of...

The 11 activists, including Amnesty Turkey’s director and chair, face up to 15 years behind bars Allegations against 11 human rights activists, including Amnesty International Turkey's director and...

If execution of Amirhossein Pourjafar goes ahead it will be the fifth of a juvenile offender this year alone Pourjafar is one of more than 90 people on death row for crimes committed as children ‘The...

LONDON, MONDAY 23 OCTOBER 2017 Amnesty International is hosting a special performance of the play about the jailed British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at its east London headquarters on...

‘All settlement goods are tainted by illegality and the UK Government should put a stop to the trade in these goods’ - Kate Allen The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is being asked to ban the sale in...

Many civilians still buried under the rubble UK military should release precise information about its attacks Marking the one-year point today since Iraqi forces and a US-led military coalition...

As the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council meets today to discuss subjects including Human Rights and Myanmar, Iverna McGowan, Director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office...

Authorities fire at patients seeking hospital treatment after protests One patient “lost more than a litre of blood” but is too scared to receive help More than 500 people arrested in the two weeks...

Actors James McAvoy, Claire Danes and Ben Stiller have joined a host of Hollywood stars in calling for the immediate release of 11 prominent human rights defenders in Turkey. More than 20 celebrities...