Country’s highly restrictive abortion laws to be reformed by end of 2020 Spotlight on UK Government to reform Northern Ireland abortion law as UK slips “further and further behind on women’s rights” –...

Award-winning human rights defender is more than three weeks into protest at his unjust ten-year jail sentence ‘Ahmed Mansoor should never have been tried and imprisoned in the first place’ - Lynn...

Travel company announced last year it would remove listings ‘at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians’ Move ‘exposes the hollowness of their claims to be a company that values...

Figures down from 993 to 690 - lowest in at least a decade China remains world’s top executioner - followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Iraq But several countries saw a rise in executions -...

Nine people have been reportedly killed in Sudan since protesters began a sit-in at the military’s headquarters in Khartoum on Saturday (6 April), with police and security forces using excessive force...

Responding to a speech by International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt at an event hosted by the Canadian High Commission yesterday, Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland...

Responding to the case of Laleh Shahravesh, a British woman who has reportedly been detained in Dubai on defamation charges in relation to a Facebook post in her name which called her ex-husband’s new...

Responding to the guilty verdicts for "public nuisance" against nine leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong, Man-kei Tam, Director of Amnesty International Hong Kong...

All parties to conflict have ‘appalling’ human rights records Particular concerns for 1,300 migrants in detention centres in Qasr Ben Gashir and Ain Zara Fears of further civilian bloodshed are...

Court of Appeal set to hear case from Campaign Against the Arms Trade - with intervention from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and Rights Watch UK ‘By selling billions of pounds worth of arms to Saudi...