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 the repression of protesters by states across the globe, the Human Rights Violations...

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 Iran. The crackdown was swift and brutal: hundreds of protesters were killed, thousands...

Solidarity with Women and Girls in Iran and Afghanistan, Protect Civilians in Sudan and Ethiopia, Ban the Scan and more Woman Life Freedom uprising anniversary September 16 The death in detention of 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini on September 16, 2022, following her violent arrest by Iran’s...

Facial recognition makes racial discrimination worse. Learn more about how it threatens human rights and take action to ban it.

Iranian authorities are subjecting Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. He is held in solitary confinement in a windowless basement cell and is denied access to adequate healthcare and fresh air. On January 10, 2023, Iranian state...

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Afghanistan Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2022, the Taliban have mounted a sustained attack on human rights, persecuting minority groups, violently clamping down on peaceful protests, and using extrajudicial executions and disappearances to spread fear among Afghans. Repeated...

Op-ed by Deprose Muchena, senior director for regional human rights impact at Amnesty International. It’s been 74 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the UN General Assembly. This international document is meant to guarantee the human...

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees advocates in more than 200 countries and territories take millions of actions in support of people whose human rights are under attack.

By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s North Africa Researcher Arriving in Cairo a few days before the constitutional referendum held on Saturday 15 December, I couldn’t remember a more bitterly divided and polarized Egypt. During my last visit to the country as part of an Amnesty...

In June 2024, three relatives of political workers from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were forcibly disappeared. On June 6, Professors Mazhar-ul-Hassan and Zahoor-ul-Hassan, brothers of PTI member Azhar Mashwani, were disappeared. Just three days later, on June 9, Ghulam Shabbir, brother of...

Toronto, ON – July 2, 2024 – Amnesty International Canada and the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) regret the Ontario Superior Court’s decision to grant the injunction sought by the University of Toronto. The ruling is a setback on the right of peaceful assembly, fails...