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 […]

On September 25, the High Court in Kinshasa rejected detained journalist Stanis Bujakera’s bail application. Stanis Bujakera was arbitrarily arrested on September 8 at N’djili Airport in Kinshasa, the Democratic […]

Reacting to the news that Iran’s parliament has passed a new bill that would impose further draconian penalties severely violating women’s and girls’ rights as well as increasing  prison terms and […]

Since his arrest on September 10, 2017, Egyptian authorities have arbitrarily detained Ibrahim Metwaly, human rights lawyer and co-founder of the Families of the Disappeared in Egypt group, who was […]

“Children are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” says Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Climate Advisor.

Manitoba's refusal to search for the remains of three murdered Indigenous women is ‘indefensible,’ Amnesty International Canada says.

The families of those unlawfully killed by Iran’s security forces during the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising in 2022 must be allowed to mark the one-year anniversaries of their deaths, Amnesty […]

Gubad Ibadoghlu, a renowned political economist and civil activist, was detained on July 23, 2023 on fabricated charges of the production, acquisition, or sale of counterfeit money by an organized […]

This year, the state host for the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is the United Arab Emirates (UAE).1 To have […]

Maykel Castillo Pérez, also known as “Maykel Osorbo,” is a Cuban musician and prisoner of conscience who has faced constant harassment and arbitrary detentions. On May 18, 2021, state security […]

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

Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist from Russian-occupied Crimea is still being denied healthcare. She was abducted by Russian security officials in April 2022 and sentenced to seven […]