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Amnesty International

Shabana Mahmood unveils hardline plans for asylum system
News

Government’s asylum proposals ‘cross a dangerous line’, warn campaigners and MPs

Olivia Barber
18 November, 2025 (3 weeks ago)

“This is headline chasing, not problem solving – a Government bowing to anti-immigrant, anti-rights politics.”

People protesting the banning of Palestine Action in Parliament Square
News

What is the future of our protest rights?

Olivia Barber
13 October, 2025

Why is a Labour government trying to resurrect Tory anti-protest powers that the courts found to be unlawful?

Nigel Farage at a Reform UK press conference
News

Tory and Reform politicians are putting trials at risk with immigration “hysteria”, ex-ministers warn

Olivia Barber
6 August, 2025

‘The attorney general must step in and send a formal warning to Farage that contempt of court will not be tolerated.’

Bibby Stockholm

Migrants removed from ‘deathtrap’ barge, as government faces huge backlash over latest hostile immigration policy

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
13 August, 2023

‘This is yet another example of an ill-thought-out, knee-jerk reaction to the government’s own backlog of asylum claims.’

International response

Solidarity builds to help Poland accommodate refugees fleeing Ukraine

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 March, 2022

As central Europe welcomes Ukrainian refugees with open arms, the international community ramps up efforts to support primary receiving countries like Poland.

Human rights groups slam Newcastle United takeover by Saudi investment fund as “tool for erasing human rights abuse”

Alexandra Warren
10 October, 2021

The Premier League’s owners’ and directors’ test does not prohibit those complicit in acts of torture, slavery, human trafficking or war crimes. 

Priti Patel

Are Priti Patel’s plans to send migrant boats back to France lawful?

Alexandra Warren
11 September, 2021

‘The Government’s push back plan is senseless, dangerous and almost certainly unlawful.’

The government just got savaged in the Lords over human rights

Joana Ramiro
24 April, 2018

Lord Pannick led the charge against May’s Brexiteer Cabinet in a debate over keeping EU’s human rights charter in British law – and won.

Poll shows ‘overwhelming demand’ for change to Northern Ireland’s abortion laws

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
18 October, 2016

Over 70 per cent believe abortion should be available in cases of rape or incest

Is Britain doing enough to oppose unjust executions?

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
6 April, 2016

Use of the death penalty surged to a 25-year high in 2015, according to Amnesty International

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