#Amnesty

Amnesty’s brilliant supporters have written letters both to those whose rights are being violated, and the people in authority who can make change happen.

Responding to the conviction and ten-year imprisonment of Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha today by the Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad, Yasmine Ahmed, Senior Director for Regional Human Rights Impact at Amnesty International, said: “These…

Reacting to yesterday’s announcement by the Dutch public broadcasting organization, NPO, that they would not take part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027 due to the Israel’s continued participation, Amnesty International’s Europe Director, Steve…

People and communities facing the climate crisis must be heard above fossil fuel lobbyists write Directors of Amnesty Australia, Brazil and Türkiye.

Private security companies connected to Cambodia's military, police and powerful business networks have enabled trafficking and slavery.

Survivors tell rights group that serving officers who worked as guards administered electric shocks and beatings

Tanzanian authorities have failed to hold anyone accountable for the violence security forces inflicted on protesters, which left hundreds of people dead and thousands of others injured in the wake of the 2025 general election, Amnesty International said…

The European Commission’s proposed changes to the Frontex mandate prioritize expanding the agency’s powers to deport, enforce border control, and operate beyond the EU without expanding the agency's human rights obligations in turn.

Responding to the news that the New Cairo Misdemeanours court today convicted editor in chief Lina Attalah on charges of operating an unlicenced website, ordering the shutdown of prominent independent outlet Mada Masr and taking her into police custody…

A new bill before Sri Lanka’s parliament that grants the authorities sweeping arbitrary powers to tackle ‘organized crime’ and deny suspects’ human rights should be immediately withdrawn, Amnesty International said today.…

African leaders must demand investigations and prosecutions for all acts of trafficking in persons involving state officials or others acting with the acquiescence of the Russian authorities.

Suspected perpetrators of crimes under international law in the Central African Republic are at risk of escaping justice.

Criminalizing the human rights work of a leading, Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO is a harmful and shameful move that further exposes Russian authorities’ true motives

France’s proposed bill to make demonstrators pay for damage caused to property by acts of violence in street protests, even if they did not directly cause it themselves, will have a chilling effect on freedom of peaceful assembly and must be rejected by…

Usman Hamid, the Executive Director of Amnesty International Indonesia, has spent decades as a human rights defender.

Two years after being declared prisoners of conscience, Félix Navarro, Sayli Navarro, and Roberto Pérez Fonseca remain unjustly imprisoned in Cuba.

Ahead of parliamentary elections in Israel on 27 October, Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Policy, Advocacy and Campaigns said: “While much of the world’s attention is focused on Israel’s upcoming parliamentary…

The Huthi de facto authorities must immediately open vital roads in and around Ta’iz city, as fighting intensifies between the Huthis and government forces and moves closer to densely populated areas of the city, Amnesty International said today.…

The aims of the Convention on Biological Diversity are the conservation of nature, the sustainable use of its products and the sharing of benefits fairly by everyone.