NOT ALL SUPERHEROES WEAR CAPES. AMNESTY UK PRESENTS THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS: ORDINARY PEOPLE DOING EXTRAORDINARY THINGS. All over the world, hard won rights are being weakened and denied every day...

Challenge laid down to industry giants at Nordic Electric Vehicle (EV) Summit in Oslo Still no requirement on companies to publicly report on cobalt supply chains, despite use of child miners in the...

Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey were arrested after exposing police collusion in Loughinisland massacre Amnesty has warned that freedom of the press in Northern Ireland is “at risk” 15,000 people...

‘This verdict demonstrates that war criminals cannot hide from justice’ - Massimo Moratti Responding to today’s decision by the Appeals Chamber of the International Residual Mechanisms for Criminal...

11 human rights activists back in court in Istanbul in long-running case seen as emblematic of ongoing crackdown ‘H uman rights defenders in Turkey spend their days either languishing in jail or...

Forensic investigation produces evidence 14 civilians were killed in just five strikes, amounting to possible war crimes Since President Trump’s executive order two years ago, US has launched more...

With hundreds of people confirmed dead and thousands of others missing or displaced after a devastating cyclone hit Mozambique, Zimbabwe and parts of Malawi, Amnesty International is calling on...

Amnesty consultant Hind Khoudary interrogated and ill-treated by security forces earlier today ‘The crackdown on freedom of expression and the use of torture in Gaza has reached alarming new levels’ -...

Head of Memorial’s Chechnya office - Oyub Titiev - subjected to ‘sham’ trial on drugs offences ‘Oyub Titiev … is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for his human rights work in Chechnya’ -...

Fighter jet’s missiles said ‘Made in Britain, ruining lives in Yemen’ ‘While UK arms companies are making money, Yemeni civilians are dying in their thousands’ - Kate Allen **PHOTOS AVAILABLE** here...