In the last 24 hours Amnesty International supporters in the UK have sent 15,000 messages to the Ugandan president, prime minister and opposition leader demanding the country’s parliament drops a...

Amnesty International is calling for justice for all victims of the 1998-99 Kosovo war after three high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were acquitted of war crimes at a retrial...

‘All states with a troop presence in Afghanistan must follow the UK’s example’ - Polly Truscott Amnesty International has welcomed a UK Ministry of Defence announcement today that it will maintain its...

Case was ‘trial of the Arab Spring’ - Qatari activist A life sentence handed today to a Qatari poet has all the hallmarks of an outrageous betrayal of free speech, Amnesty International has said...

Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 December 2012 Amnesty to record four festive podcasts in acclaimed Secret Comedy Podcast series (Guardian Editor’s choice, Metro pick of the podcasts) Members of the public are...

News that communications are being targeted by the Syrian authorities raises the alarming prospect that they are seeking to prevent the world from learning what is happening amid increasingly intense...

Kuwait in ‘turmoil’ as Sheikh Sabah visits UK Ahead of the Emir of Kuwait’s meeting with the Prime Minister David Cameron later today, Amnesty International Kuwait researcher Drewery Dyke said: “With...

‘We refused to leave and one man was beaten and his clothes were torn apart’ - protester, speaking to Amnesty Approximately 15 Saudi Arabian men detained yesterday must be released unless they are...

Human rights and Arms campaigners have welcomed a hard hitting report from an All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry published today which recommends widespread changes to UK Export Finance, the government...

The adoption yesterday of a resolution against female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UN General Assembly’s human rights committee is a major boost to civil society organisations fighting for an end...