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UK: India will be 'real test' of foreign policy under new strategy

‘The UK needs to go beyond fine phrases and take a principled stand’ - Kate Allen Responding to the UK government’s publication today of an Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and...

Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2021 finalists announced

Amnesty International has today (16 March) revealed the Amnesty UK Media Awards 2021 finalists, a prestigious set of awards that have now been running for 29 years. The winners of this year’s awards...

UK: Policing bill will normalise 'dangerous over-policing' of peaceful protest

‘This bill is liable to makes the scenes we saw at Clapham Common the new normal’ - Kate Allen Urgent Campaign launched to halt Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill Amnesty International is...

UK: Met's action at Clapham a sharp reminder to MPs to resist temptation to give police more powers

Responding to this weekend’s excessive clampdown on peaceful protests and the passage of t he Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in Parliament over the next two days , Kate Allen, Director of...

Iran: UK must act after fresh uncertainty over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's fate

‘It remains vital that the UK government makes urgent representations to get this second trumped-up case against Nazanin dropped’ - Kate Allen Responding to reports today that the British national...

Scotland: Holyrood has opportunity to be world leader with new human rights law

Scottish Government commits to four international human rights treaties to protect the rights of disabled people, black and ethnic minority people, women and economic, social and cultural rights ‘ We...

Northern Ireland: Amnesty welcomes Council of Europe move to re-open Pat Finucane case

Amnesty International has welcomed the decision of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to re-open its scrutiny of UK government failures to order a public inquiry into the 1989 murder of...

Myanmar: Battlefield weaponry and 'murderous methods' used against protesters

Soldiers in military units implicated in previous atrocities turning their guns on protesters Videos show commanders directing sniper fire at specific protesters, with people summarily killed in the...

COVID-19: Global 'Fair Shot' campaign launched to combat vaccine nationalism

Pharmaceutical companies’ restrictive patents denying vaccines to poorer countries Rich countries have bought up more than half of all vaccines despite comprising 16% of global population ‘When it...

Saudi Arabia: failure to quash Loujain al-Hathloul's conviction condemned

Women’s rights activist’s appeal against conviction rejected ‘They consider peaceful activism a crime and consider activists to be traitors or spies’ - Lynn Maalouf Responding to today’s decision by...