By Maya Q’eqchi’ teacher and rights defender Bernardo Caal Xol Indigenous Peoples face racism and discrimination in most countries. We have been stripped of our lands and evicted from them. The powerful implement policies that leave us impoverished and obstruct all kinds of...

Based on 15 interviews carried out in March 2022 with former detainees, lawyers of prisoners and experts, as well as a review of over 100 news reports, the briefing, 15 Days Felt like 15 Years, documents the horrific experiences of individuals from the moment they are arrested, through their...

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 71/22 BELOW On 15 July, a court in Krasnodar (southern Russia) sentenced Andrei Pivovarov to four years in prison for “carrying out activities of an undesirable organization”, under a law that contravenes Russia’s international human rights obligations. Andrei Pivovarov...

In less than a year, the Taliban have decimated the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. Soon after they took control of the country’s government, the Taliban said they were committed to upholding the rights of women and girls. Yet they have violated women’s and girls’ rights to...

The report, Death in Slow Motion: Women and Girls Under Taliban Rule, also reveals how women who peacefully protested against these oppressive rules have been threatened, arrested, detained, tortured, and forcibly disappeared

One year after the Pegasus Project revelations, Amnesty International warned today that the lack of a global moratorium on the sale of Pegasus spyware is allowing the surveillance industry to continue unchecked. The Pegasus Project uncovered how governments worldwide were using NSO...

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 43/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW Mohamed Benhlima is an activist, former military official and whistleblower who exposed alleged corruption by high-ranking Algerian military officials online. He sought asylum in Spain but the Spanish authorities refouled him to Algeria in March 2022. The...

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 67/22 BELOW José Daniel Ferrer García, leader of the unofficial political opposition group “Patriotic Union of Cuba,” was arrested on 11 July 2021 in the context of island-wide protests and has been imprisoned ever since. He is now being held incommunicado, according to...

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 11/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW Unjustly jailed Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace, who has been on a hunger strike for a year, since 8 July 2021, announced on 29 June that he would also stop taking salts, in protest at the Bahraini authorities’ withholding some of his medication, increasing...

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 63/22 BELOW Human rights defender Sitanun Satsaksit has been working to ensure authorities in Cambodia and Thailand determine the fate and whereabouts of her brother after he was abducted while on the phone to her in 2020. Thai authorities charged her for her human rights work...

June 24th has marked a grim day in the United States, as the US Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and ruled to end protections for abortion rights in the US. Not only will this landmark decision endanger the health and lives of millions, it also reverses nearly 50 years of essential...

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 105/15 UPDATE 10 BELOW Arbitrarily detained Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi is being tortured and otherwise ill-treated in Shahr-e Rey prison in Varamin, outside Tehran, including by being intentionally denied the specialized healthcare she requires in reprisal...