“Today was a both a celebration of who we are in Ireland now"

Ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland this week, we asked a broad range of individuals and organisations to compose open letters explaining why he was or wasn't welcome to this country.

At least two people have died and about 40 others were detained in what has been described as a crackdown on gay people in the Russian republic of Chechnya, LGBT activists said.

The wife of the ruler of Dubai told RTÉ Radio 1's The Marian Finucane Show that she invited Ms Robinson to visit her and Princess Sheikha Latifa, and asked for her counsel as a family friend.

Termination of pregnancy services will be available in Ireland from January 1 - but it will be a limited service, Health Minister Simon Harris has admitted.

27 senators voted in favour of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 and five against.

A number of groups campaigns on opposing sides of the upcoming referendum on the Eight Amendment have raised significant amounts of money to fund their campaigns

The Department of Justice failed to examine all available evidence when it wrongly refused some Magdalene laundry survivors access to redress payments.

Amnesty International has claimed that Myanmar security forces and local vigilante mobs are still burning Rohingya villages in Burma, despite assertions by the country's leader Aung San Suu Kyi that they had stopped.

Ministers and diplomats are working to get Ibrahim Halawa home “as soon as possible” after his four-year ordeal in an Egyptian prison came to an end when a Cairo court acquitted him of all the charges against him.

A verdict is expected today in the trial of Irish citizen Ibrahim Halawa.

Irish activists are taking part in an Action Camp on the Greek island of Lesvos today.

An Istanbul court has ordered six human rights activists - including Amnesty International's Turkey director - to be formally arrested pending a trial on charges of aiding an armed terror group.

A new report is highlighting the scale of death and suffering caused to civilians caught up in the war in Mosul.

A new report by Amnesty International uncovers the horrifying scale of death, injury and suffering of civilians trapped in the battle for west Mosul.

Comedian and radio presenter Al Porter is headlining a charity gig in support of Amnesty International Ireland.

The trial of Ibrahim Halawa has been adjourned for the 20th time.

Several groups have welcomed the recognition of Traveller’s minority ethnicity status.

Teenagers at a North Cork school brought children from Angola, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Austria to Cork City Hall to join pupils from 22 Irish second- level schools as part of the country’s largest model United Nations conference.

As executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, Colm O’Gorman is immediately recognisable as the man who passionately represents the disenfranchised. 

The trial of Irish man Ibrahim Halawa in Egypt has been postponed for the 18th time.

A report by Amnesty International says a lack of leadership from wealthy nations will lead to a worsening of the refugee crisis.

Amnesty International claims to have a video showing the beheading of a boy by an armed opposition group in northern Syria.

Irish law criminalises women and girls for having abortions and could see them get 14 years in jail. Niall Behan says it it time to change it to put women’s health first

Refugees and migrants in Greece have staged protests at the country's border with Macedonia and on islands near the Turkish coast today.

The trial in Egypt of Dubliner Ibrahim Halawa has been adjourned for the 13th time.

More than 900 leading medical professionals from around the world have signed an open letter appealing for the decriminalisation of abortion.

The trial of satirical cartoonist Atena Farghadani and her lawyer on a charge of “illegitimate sexual relations falling short of adultery” after they shook hands is “clearly politically motivated”, Amnesty International said today.

Charities and rights groups welcomed the Government’s action plan on the refugee crisis but warned sufficient resources and organisation were crucial to its successful implementation.

As he takes his place as Grand Marshall at Cork Pride, Colm O’Gorman, the calm, considered voice in the months leading up to this year’s vote on marriage equality, talks to John Meagher.

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

Law to go before the Dáil ahead of summer recess

Amnesty International has condemned as “grotesque” the Saudi Arabian government’s advertisement for eight executioners to carry out its public beheadings.

The internet, increased automation, and permission to express emotion, has in one generation, changed life radically for us says Richard Fitzpatrick

The Catholic Bishop of Elphin Kevin Doran has accused the Government of misleading the public over the impact of the marriage equality referendum.

Colm O’Gorman’s daughter, Safia, gets upset and very angry when she hears people talk about how her family is not “ideal”.

Amnesty has said it is gravely concerned about Irish teenager Ibrahim Halawa after the latest postponement in Egypt of what the organisation has called his “sham trial”.

The CEO of Amnesty International Ireland has described the criminal justice system in Egypt as a "joke".

The terms of reference for the new investigation into mother and baby homes received a broad welcome — but also criticism over its exclusion of Magdalene Laundries and adoptions involving state hospitals.

The Government is “very seriously” considering demands to reopen a landmark case against Britain over the alleged use of torture in the North during the Troubles.

So what were you doing when you first heard that song and saw that video asks Richard Fitzpatrick?

An Irish teenager on hunger strike in an Egyptian prison has been beaten severely, according to his family.

Amnesty International Ireland is calling for the immediate release of a Dublin teenager being held in an Egyptian prison following his arrest over a year ago.

Amnesty International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of an Irish teenager held in prison in Egypt.