Hong Kong’s political leaders must show they are prepared to resist pressure from President Xi Jinping to further erode human rights in the city, Amnesty International said. As the Chinese President...

The Court of Appeal in Belfast has ruled today that Northern Ireland’s highly restrictive abortion laws are not in breach of human rights standards, a decision Amnesty International called “absurd”...

Responding to news that the Speaker of the House of Commons has accepted a cross-party amendment to the Queen’s Speech asking the UK Government to ensure access to NHS-funded abortions in England for...

Ogoni Nine widow Esther Kiobel takes on the oil giant in a new case following a twenty-year struggle for justice Shell documents expose the company’s role in the executions – new Amnesty research...

Liam Neeson, Gary Lightbody, Graham Norton, Stephen Fry, Bronagh Waugh and Neil Hannon add their voices to call for same-sex couples to be able to marry in Northern Ireland Some of the world’s biggest...

Responding to the British Medical Association passing a motion calling for the decriminalisation of abortion in the UK, Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International UK’s Northern Ireland Campaign Manager...

‘We filed this request for documents because people need to know what to expect when they face immigration and law-enforcement officials at US borders’ - Margaret Huang Following yesterday’s US...

Following the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will hear arguments on President Trump’s discriminatory Muslim travel ban and allow the order to take effect in the meantime, Margaret Huang, Amnesty...

Responding to the news that Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo has developed late-stage liver cancer while in prison and is currently in hospital receiving treatment, Amnesty International’s China...

Amnesty International is today calling for improved training for police into how to deal with hate crime and for a review of the hate crime legal framework as it publishes a new briefing ‘Against Hate...