Snowden’s right to seek asylum must be respected The US authorities must not prosecute anyone for disclosing information about the government’s human rights violations, Amnesty International has said...

Amnesty International has received credible reports that the authorities in the state of Edo in southern Nigerian have hanged four men in Benin City Prison today - the first known executions in the...

Amnesty International has launched a new Chinese-language website containing research reports, articles and blog entries on the organisation’s research and activism around the world. While the site is...

As hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in cities across Brazil, it's clear that the country’s police are ill-prepared to deal with protests on this scale. Renata Neder, Human Rights...

Turkish LGBTI activists plan Pride marches this Sunday and next Following weeks of violently-suppressed public protests, the Turkish government’s declaration that public assemblies in Istanbul’s...

Human rights, including women’s rights, must be integral to any peace deal with the Taliban said Amnesty International as the USA announced that it was to start direct peace talks with Afghanistan’s...

The Libyan authorities must act immediately to end the indefinite detention of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants, including children, Amnesty International said in a new briefing published today...

DATE: Thursday 4 July, 7.30pm VENUE: Europa Hotel, Belfast House of Commons Speaker, Rt Hon John Bercow MP, will deliver the Amnesty International Pride Lecture next month in Belfast. The free lecture...

Chinese mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need to do more to prevent their operations from leading to human rights abuses, Amnesty International warned today in...

The Romanian authorities betray thousands of their citizens through broken promises and total disregard of their right to adequate housing, Amnesty International said in a new report published today...