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Libya: release migrants and refugees trapped in detention centres amid escalating clashes

More than 700 people trapped in a detention centre near Tripoli fighting ‘The UK Government is one of those partly responsible’ - Steve Valdez-Symonds Responding to reports that more than 700 refugees...

France: leaked documents showing weapons use in Yemen should prompt halt to sales

Responding to leaked French military documents published today by an investigative news site highlighting the widespread use of French weapons in the conflict in Yemen, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty...

Windrush one year on: Scandal 'far from over'

Tomorrow marks one year since Amber Rudd’s formal apology in Commons Call for ‘fundamental reforms’, including removal of profit element from fee for people registering their rights to British...

Cyclone Idai: international assistance urgently needed one month on

One month since Cyclone Idai hit Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe - killing more than 1,000 people, with many more still missing and feared dead, and leaving hundreds of thousands homeless - the...

Sudan: Investigate role of intelligence chief in protest killings

Responding to the news that Salah Gosh, head of the Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), which spearheaded the deadly crackdown against protesters in recent months, has stepped...

USA: ban on trans people in military is 'shameful step backward'

Discriminatory measure comes into force today In response to President Trump’s transgender military ban going into effect today, Tarah Demant, Amnesty International USA’s Gender, Sexuality and...

Afghanistan: ICC refusal to authorise investigation 'a shocking abandonment of victims'

The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision not to authorise an investigation into crimes committed in Afghanistan under international law marks a shocking abandonment of victims and will...

Brunei: Claims of 'preventative' stoning and amputation laws are callous and reckless

Responding to reports that Brunei’s foreign minister, Erywan Yusof, has claimed that the punishments contained in the country’s newly-introduced Shariah Penal Code are ‘preventive’, Stephen Cockburn...

USA: asylum pushbacks into Mexico are 'illegal'

Amnesty experts observed 28 asylum cases in San Diego earlier this week Courts have recently struck down the controversial ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy ‘I don’t feel safe to be here’ - Honduran man...

Domestic Abuse Bill: Human Rights Committee raises serious concerns

Amnesty International has welcomed a letter from the Joint Committee on Human Rights to the UK Government sent today (11 April), raising serious concerns about current shortfalls in the draft Domestic...