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  • April 19, 2016
    New report on conditions for 46,000 refugees trapped in Greece

    With international attention focused on the implementation of the recently agreed EU-Turkey deal, the plight of more than 46,000 refugees and migrants stuck in squalid conditions across mainland Greece is in danger of being forgotten, Amnesty International warns in a new report.

  • March 25, 2016
    Amnesty calls for reform of Northern Ireland abortion law

    Amnesty International has said it will study new draft legal guidance on abortion to be published by Northern Ireland's Department of Health and has repeated its call for urgent reform of the region’s restrictive abortion law. It was announced yesterday that the Northern Ireland government will finally publish the long-awaited draft guidance.

  • March 21, 2016
    Northern Ireland abuse survivors call on politicians for redress

    Victims of historic child abuse in Northern Ireland are urging the Stormont Executive to provide redress for the suffering experienced in residential institutions.

  • February 25, 2016
    UK setting 'dangerous precedent' on human rights says Amnesty

    Amnesty International has warned the UK is setting a dangerous precedent to the world by undermining human rights on a number of fronts, in its annual report on the state of the world’s human rights published yesterday.

  • February 23, 2016
    Government lets UK companies 'off the hook' on human rights

    UK companies, including BT and Vodafone, may be getting away with human rights abuses abroad because the government’s system of handling complaints against them is grossly inadequate, Amnesty International UK has warned in a new report.

  • February 20, 2016
    US prisoner released after 43 years in solitary confinement

    Yesterday (19 February) the last imprisoned member of the ‘Angola 3’, Albert Woodfox, was released after more than four decades in solitary confinement, on his 69th birthday in a move Amnesty International called "long overdue and undeniably just".

  • February 16, 2016
    Amnesty calls on Russian and Syria to end hospital attacks

    Attacks on at least two medical facilities in Syria yesterday (15 February) are just the latest of scores of apparently deliberate attacks on hospitals, clinics and medical personnel being committed in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, says Amnesty International .

  • February 9, 2016
    Amnesty urges safe passage for refugees at Turkish border

    Tens of thousands of people displaced by joint Russian and Syrian government attacks in the north of Syria must be allowed to cross the border to safety in Turkey, Amnesty International said amid reports that thousands of people are waiting at border gates that remain closed.

  • January 21, 2016
    Taliban attack on university an 'affront to humanity' says Amnesty

    The armed men who carried out the deadly armed attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, north-western Pakistan, violated the central principle of international humanitarian law by deliberately targeting civilians in what appears to be a war crime, says Amnesty International.

  • January 14, 2016
    Arrest of Raif Badawi's sister 'attempt to intimidate activists'

    The arrest of Samar Badawi, a prominent human rights defender and sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi, is the latest example of Saudi Arabia’s utter contempt for its human rights obligations, says Amnesty International.