The occupied Gaza Strip will likely plunge into another total communications blackout on Thursday if appropriate fuel supplies are not immediately delivered, which will worsen an already catastrophic humanitarian situation, […]

A delegation from Amnesty International Canada attended Canada’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations in Geneva on Friday.

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Companies selling less lethal weapons to countries that abuse them to suppress protests, and states licensing these exports, are fuelling a global human rights crisis and must stop this irresponsible […]

Reacting to the news that unjustly imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said:   “Narges Mohammadi receives this […]

Authorities across the world are increasingly resorting to unlawful use of force and repressive legislation to crush protests. Amnesty International launched a digital map today that exposes the shocking rise […]

In September 2022 Jina Mahsa Amini, a young woman from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority, visited Tehran with her brother. She was stopped and arrested by Iran’s “morality” police (gasht-e ershad), […]

The death in detention of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, following her violent arrest by Iran’s “morality” police sparked the unprecedented Woman Life Freedom popular uprising in […]

Amnesty International is highlighting nine rights defenders and collectives who have devoted their lives to ending inequality and violence.

Recorded executions worldwide in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years. According to the Amnesty International Death Penalty Report released today, the Middle East and North Africa’s most notorious […]

Amnesty International is calling this week for social security to be made available to everyone worldwide after a series of crises exposed huge gaps in state support and protection systems, […]

Who are Women Human Rights Defenders? Women human rights defenders (WHRDs) is an inclusive term used to represent the struggle for the recognition of unique challenges faced by women and […]