Air strikes by the Myanmar military killed 17 civilians – including nine children – as they gathered to attend church last month, Amnesty International said in a new investigation. The […]

Bulldozer Injustice: JCB brand machinery weaponized as a tool in hate campaign against minorities in India India’s widespread unlawful demolitions of Muslims’ homes, businesses and places of worship through the […]

With the world’s eyes fixed on Gaza, Israeli forces have over the past four months unleashed a brutal wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, carrying out […]

Victor Yeimo, a pro-independence activist from Papua, was unfairly arrested for his role in peaceful protests against racial discrimination in Indonesia. On May 5, 2023, he was cleared of treason […]

Narges Mohammadi and Zeynab Jalalian, both long-term women human rights defenders, have been repeatedly targeted and detained for their human rights work. Amnesty International is calling for their immediate and […]

Myanmar’s military has unlawfully killed, arbitrarily detained and stolen from civilians as it struggles to contain the heaviest outburst of armed resistance since the 2021 coup, Amnesty International said today. […]

On October 24, 2021, journalist Bassem al-Zaak was abducted while he was live-streaming a sit-in organized by a political bloc in Baghdad to protest the results of the parliamentary elections. […]

December 13, 2023 COP28 in Dubai has agreed on the need to move away from fossil fuels for the first time, at the end of a climate summit marred by […]

Responding to the arrests of several people in connection with Hong Kong’s District Council elections, which took place on Sunday, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for China, Sarah Brooks, said: […]

2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Born from the ashes of World War II under the shadow of the very worst of humanity, […]

Oqba Hashad has been arbitrarily detained without trial for over four years and six months solely for his brother’s human rights activism. Security forces subjected him to enforced disappearance for […]

By Colombian water defender Yuly Velásquez Briceño * Rivers and wetlands have always held great significance for me. They are a source of livelihood and economic and emotional well-being for many […]