Amnesty International has called for the Northern Ireland Executive to set up a public inquiry into clerical child sex abuse following the announcement by the Catholic diocese of Dromore of a redress...

After urgent letter to Olympia security fair organisers, NSO will not showcase intrusive surveillance equipment linked to numerous human rights violations Firm’s notorious Pegasus spyware used against...

Responding to news that people in Switzerland have voted in a referendum to make same-sex marriage legal, Alex andra Karle, Director of Amnesty Switzerland, said: “Yesterday’s vote in giving same-sex...

Responding to a Taiwanese court ruling that a government requirement obliging trans people to provide proof of reproductive organ removal surgery in order to affirm their legal gender is...

Responding to the disbandment of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (Hong Kong Alliance), which has organised Hong Kong’s Tiananmen commemoration vigil for...

Customs and Border Protection officials’ ‘horrific’ behaviour must be properly investigated Visceral images of Texas border agents on horseback apparently trying to ‘round up’ migrants have been...

Aleksandr Gabyshev embarked on epic walk from Yakutsk to Moscow in 2019 Detention in psychiatric hospitals was a common Soviet-era tactic used against dissidents ‘The authorities are using...

Council of Europe Commissioner on Human Rights, Dunja Mijatovic, has written to the NI Secretary of State over UK government plans to introduce a ‘broad based and unconditional’ amnesty for NI...

In response to today’s Global Covid-19 Summit: Ending the Pandemic and Building Back Better, where US President Biden and EU President Von der Leyen announced new commitments to donate an additional...

AstraZeneca, BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer refuse to participate in initiatives to boost global vaccine supply Fewer than 1% of people in low-income countries fully...