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First same-sex couple to marry in UK says five-year anniversary 'marred' by inequality for Northern Ireland couples

Five years since the first same-sex UK marriage, Peter McGraith calls for marriage equality to be extended to Northern Ireland Equal marriage advocates Conor McGinn MP and Lord Hayward issue joint...

Facebook must lead 'fight against hate speech online,' says Amnesty

Responding to the news that Facebook will no longer allow content supporting white nationalism and white separatism to be published, Tanya O’Carroll, Director of Amnesty International Tech, said: “As...

Saudi Arabia: Provisional release of three women activists a positive step, but bogus charges must be dropped

Responding to the release of three Saudi women activists, Iman al-Nafjan, Aziza al-Yousef and Ruqayyaa al-Mhareb, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle East Director of Research, said: “The...

ISRAEL / OPT: Amnesty fears violent crackdown at Saturday's protests

Amnesty International today issued an urgent call to the Israeli forces to show restraint when faced with mass demonstrations on Saturday. Thousands or people are expected to take to the streets to...

New Amnesty report reveals Nordic nations are failing rape victims

Despite being among the top-ranking countries in the world in terms of gender equality, four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) have disturbingly high levels of rape and survivors...

Bahrain: Grand Prix should not 'sportswash' country's human rights record

‘Beneath the glamour of the F1, there is a far more sinister side to Bahrain’ - Samah Hadid Ahead of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix this weekend, Amnesty International has highlighted the grim...

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: giant Mother's Day card and flowers to be delivered to Iranian Embassy

Husband Richard Ratcliffe, other family members and Hampstead Mothers will attend 155 bunches of flowers - representing number of weeks mother-of-one has already been in jail - to be laid at door of...

EU: Diminished 'Operation Sophia' abandons refugees and migrants to reckless Libyan Coast Guard

Reacting to reports that EU governments have agreed to significantly downscale the EunavforMed Operation ‘Sophia’, withdrawing ships from the central Mediterranean and only continuing the mission with...

Syria: Government forces have bombed medical facilities, school and bakery in Idlib

Six recent attacks verified by Amnesty, with children among those killed ‘The Syrian government continues to show utter disregard for the laws of war and the lives of civilians’ - Lynn Maalouf Syrian...

Dominican Republic: Sex workers 'routinely' tortured and raped by police

Police in the Dominican Republic routinely rape, beat, humiliate and verbally abuse women sex workers, Amnesty International revealed in a new report released today. The 52-page report, ‘ If they can...