Press Release

Two years on, a generation of refugee children are missing out on school.

Amnesty International welcomes a global day of school strikes against climate change, happening in 98 countries and counting.

Governments across the world are increasingly attacking non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by creating laws that subject them and their staff to surveillance, nightmarish bureaucratic hurdles and the ever-present threat of imprisonment.

Medivac Bill a welcome step for refugees on Manus and Nauru, but reopening of Christmas Island disappointing.

Online booking agents profiting from illegal Israeli settlements.

Iranian authorities crushed protests and arrested thousands in a 2018 crackdown on dissent.

Pacific Islands must call on Australia to act over indefinite detention of refugees seeking asylum.

Amnesty International is extremely concerned to see the details of a report out today on the relationship between some government agencies and the private investigation firm Thompson and Clark. 

Amnesty publishes review of human rights in 2018

Women activists around the world have been at the forefront of the battle for human rights in 2018, Amnesty International said today as it launched its review on the state of human rights over the past year.