Amnesty International has today urged all parties to make the protection of civilians in Libya their top priority, after the passing of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 paved the way for possible...
Amnesty International has urged authorities in Nigeria to stem the tide of increase in political, ethnic and religious violence that risks threatening the stability of April elections. The short...
The Yemeni authorities must immediately act to bring to justice those responsible for an apparently coordinated sniper attack on protesters in the capital Sana’a today that has left dozens dead. At...
‘We need to see all UK export licences for Bahrain suspended’ - Oliver Sprague Amnesty International today revealed evidence of the Bahraini security forces’ systematic use of excessive force in...
Amnesty International has urged several US states to abandon planned legislation that would drastically restrict workers' rights. States including Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio...
Authorities in Cuba are continuing to stifle freedom of expression in spite of the much-publicised recent wave of releases of prominent dissidents, reported Amnesty International today on the eighth...
Roma communities in Slovenia are being denied proper access to adequate housing, water and sanitation due to discrimination, according to a new report today (16 March) from Amnesty International. Some...
Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights amongst those attacked Amnesty International has condemned the Syrian authorities’ crackdown on protests in the country...
Amnesty International has called on the authorities in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq to immediately release a man who faces trial on fabricated terrorism charges this week after being...
Rory Fenton, a 20-year-old Belfast student, was shortlisted today for the inaugural Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. Rory, who is a third-year Physics student from Imperial College of...