Amnesty News

Activists say the BJP is using laws framed during the Congress era to crack down on civil society

Amnesty International had received permission under the FCRA only once and that too twenty years ago, govt statesSince then Amnesty, despite its repeated applications, has been denied FCRA approval by successive governments since as per law it is not eligible to get such an approval

‘LLP settlement Scheme, 2020’ will remain open from 16 March till 13 June, 2020The entities that sign up for the scheme can gain immunity from prosecution

Amnesty India recorded 218 hate crime cases in 2018; most of the victims were Dalits, others considered 'lower caste', women and transgenders

There is no such gold amnesty scheme under consideration of Income Tax Department as being reported in media, the sources saidAs the budget process is on, typically these type of speculative reports do appear ahead of budget process, govt sources said

The notice was issued last month by the Adjudicating Authority of the FEMAThe central agency had last year conducted searches at the offices of the organisation in Bengaluru

London-based Amnesty's Secretary-General ordered an independent review after two employees killed themselves last yearFive of the seven members of the senior leadership team at Amnesty’s international secretariat are leaving the organisation after a review

Enforcement Department searches at Amnesty International’s office were suspected to be related to irregularities in foreign funding

The sixth United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights underscored the need of the central theme this year, 'Realizing Access to Effective Remedy', to be repeatedly hammered home

Former US president Barack Obama has called successor Donald Trump's decision to end an amnesty for 800,000 people brought to US illegally as children 'wrong' and 'cruel'