Afghanistan Afghanistan is at risk of losing the human rights gains made in the last 20 years. Amnesty was among many organizations expressing concern at the rapidly deteriorating situation earlier […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 106/21 BELOW Armed men abducted Mansour Atti, a journalist, blogger and head of the Red Crescent Committee and of the Civil Society Commission in Ajdabiya, on 3 June 2021 […]

The Sudanese military leaders must immediately and unconditionally release Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and all others who were arbitrarily detained this morning, Amnesty International said. At least seven other civilian […]

Amnesty International will close its two offices in Hong Kong by the end of the year, the organization announced today. The local ‘section’ office will cease operations on 31 October […]

By Efrat Arbel Most people would probably be shocked to learn that every year, Canada locks up hundreds of migrants and refugee claimants in maximum-security jails. Even more shocking is […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 100/21 Below Since August, authorities in Mexico have been conducting mass detentions and deportations of migrants and asylum seekers without taking measures to ensure that […]

The Taliban are steadily dismantling the human rights gains of the last twenty years, said Amnesty International, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) in a new briefing published […]

On the first anniversary of the unprecedented crackdown on the Human Rights Center Viasna (“Viasna”) in Belarus, 20 international and Belarusian human rights organizations are launching a campaign to demand […]

Angelina Jolie and Amnesty International have joined forces to create a resource for children and young people to learn about their rights, with the publication of a new book which […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 58/21, UPDATE 1 HERE Download the original urgent action here Victor Yeimo, a pro-independence political activist from Papua and a spokesman for the West Papua […]

The Taliban and the international community must urgently reach an agreement to extend the 31 August deadline for completing evacuations out of Afghanistan, Amnesty International said today, to help protect […]

Calls to abolish the death penalty in Canada go back to the very founding of Canada in 1867. However, the most concerted efforts in Parliament for abolition can be said to have started with MP Robert Bickerdike in the early twentieth century. Since John Diefenbaker in the 1950s, a long line of...