Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist from Russian-occupied Crimea was abducted by Russian security service on April 29, 2022. Her fate and whereabouts were unknown to her family and lawyer until May 11. Irina continues to be held in arbitrary detention. The conditions of her...

Amnesty International's 2022/23 Annual Report highlights how Canada unfairly criminalizes Indigenous defenders for protecting their lands.

On April 24, 2023, we mark the tenth anniversary of the deadliest disaster in the global garment industry. On that day in 2013, the Rana Plaza garment factories collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 people most of whom were women and injuring 2,500 others. The Rana Plaza disaster was a...

Peace activist Abdul Karim Ali has been arbitrarily detained since August 11, 2022. He was interrogated repeatedly about a video he made on July 9, 2022, denouncing a Cameroonian military chief for allegedly torturing civilians. Two of his friends have since been detained alongside him. The three...

Ottawa is facing new calls to stop violating Indigenous rights as UN Special Rapporteur Francisco Calí Tzay kicks off his visit to Canada.

On February 24, 2023, a court in Chile ordered the reopening of investigations into the officers involved in the attack on Moisés Órdenes. Previously, the seven officers were excluded from the criminal investigation. The court in its ruling also requested that the pending investigative actions be...

Belarussian human rights defender, (Anastacia) Nasta Loika is facing unfounded criminal charges after serving almost 75 days in detention for purported petty hooliganism. Nasta Loika, an educator, remains in detention. The authorities are targeting her in retaliation for her human rights work which...

Download a copy of the 1st UA 19/23 below On February 14, 2023, state security officials detained former prisoner of conscience Josiel Guía Piloto in his home in Havana, according to information currently available to Amnesty International. Prior to his detention he reported that state security...

Download a copy of the 2nd UA 03/23 below Attacks on Honduran water defenders in the community of Guapinol persist a month after the murder of activists, Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos, 38 and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, 28. Recently, six defenders of the Guapinol river found out that they could face...

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