Amnesty International have today highlighted what they described as “the multiple layers of suffering inflicted on women and girls facing crisis pregnancies as a result of being exiled to other countries”.

Burma's president Win Myint has granted amnesty to more than 8,500 prisoners.

Pope Francis held 15 minutes of talks yesterday with Burma’s military chief at the start of a visit to a majority-Buddhist country. 

"People are fleeing poverty, they are fleeing violence."

Syrian authorities have killed at least 13,000 people since the start of the 2011 uprising, in mass hangings at a prison north of Damascus known to detainees as "the slaughterhouse", Amnesty International has said.

Amnesty International is calling for technology companies to observe users' rights to privacy and freedom of expression.

The head of Amnesty International Ireland Colm O'Gorman has said a UN report into the case of an Irish woman who had an abortion in the UK is "strong and groundbreaking".

The mass forced return of refugees from Turkey to Syria exposes the flaws in the EU-Turkey deal, according to Amnesty International.

Failure to reform Northern Ireland’s strict abortion laws would be a “betrayal of women”, according to Amnesty International.

Volkswagen has said employees can come forward with information about how the company cheated on emissions tests – and will not be fired.

China has failed to live up to its obligations to comply with an international convention against torture, according to a report by Amnesty International.

Two high-profile organisations that support victims of sexual violence have condemned Amnesty International for voting in favour of decriminalising prostitution, and one has cancelled its membership of the human rights body.

Amnesty says warplanes have left ‘bloody trail of civilian death’.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald is to proceed with plans to criminalise people who pay for sex, despite calls by Amnesty International for all aspects of sex work to be decriminalised.

An Irish sex worker has welcomed Amnesty International’s draft policy to decriminalise sex work globally. 

A leading international watchdog said that the Israeli military may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during last summer’s Gaza war when it carried out four days of intense bombardment in retaliation for an attack by Hamas militants in which an Israeli soldier was captured.

The Israeli military may have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during last summer’s Gaza war, Amnesty International has claimed.

More than 80% of the public want wider access to abortion to be made available in Ireland, an opinion poll shows.

Amnesty International has urged world leaders to radically overhaul refugee policies and create a comprehensive global strategy to deal with the crisis, describing it as the worst emergency of its kind since the Second World War.

THE VENUE was laden with symbolism. Amnesty International was launching its report into the affects of Ireland’s draconian abortion laws and it was taking place in the Pillar Room in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin, writes Alison O’Connor.

The Pro-Life Campaign is accusing Amnesty International of being a "de facto abortion lobbying group".

The human rights of pregnant women and girls are being violated on a daily basis by Ireland’s abortion laws, Amnesty International has claimed.

Amnesty International has awarded its top honour to Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, who has spent years shining light on his country’s restrictive political atmosphere, and to US folk singer Joan Baez, for her civil rights activism.

Amnesty International has joined a growing chorus of calls for a full-scale inquiry into the operation of mother-and-baby homes.

Human rights chiefs have welcomed proposals for Ireland to better protect people’s rights to healthcare, social security, and housing.