9 Afro-Latina and Afro-Caribbean women, collectives devoting their lives to justice
Amnesty International is highlighting nine rights defenders and collectives who have devoted their lives to ending inequality and violence.
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Russian Federation: Jailed nurse’s condition worsens
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 […]
Good News: Cecillia Chimbiri and Joanah Mamombe acquitted of publishing falsehoods about their abduction
We are pleased to announce that on July 4, Cecillia Chimbiri and Joanah Mamombe were found not guilty of communicating falsehoods about their abduction and were acquitted by the High […]
Pakistan: YouTuber & TV anchor, Imran Riaz Khan, forcibly disappeared
On May 11, 2023, Imran Riaz Khan, a Pakistani YouTuber and TV anchor, was detained and arrested by police at the Sialkot International Airport. It was only after his detention […]
Honduras: Castro government emulates human rights suspensions in El Salvador
Amnesty International is calling on Honduras to protect human rights in response an ongoing rise in murders in the country.
Honduras: Water defenders killed
Oquelí Domínguez, brother of defenders Aly and Reynaldo Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on June 15, 2023. Five months earlier, defenders Aly […]
Iran: Youth with disability at grave risk of execution
Mohammad Ghobadlou is at grave risk of execution in connection with Iran’s nationwide protests amid a spike in executions since late April. Mohammad Ghobadlou received two death sentences after grossly […]
Honouring National Indigenous History Month 2023
Celebrate Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ land and water defenders during National Indigenous History Month 2023.
Angola: Teachers’ Union leaders receive death threats
On February 27, the National Union of Higher Education Teachers (SINPES) in Angola started a strike demanding better working conditions and fulfilment of the promises made by the government. Since […]
Iran executions: Prisons turned into killing fields
Iranian authorities have executed at least 173 people convicted of drug-related offences this year after systematically unfair trials, nearly three times more than this time last year, Amnesty International said […]
Afghanistan: Taliban’s treatment of women and girls should be investigated as the crime against humanity of gender persecution
The Taliban’s severe restrictions and unlawful crackdown on women and girls’ rights should be investigated as possible crimes under international law, including the crime against humanity of gender persecution, Amnesty […]
Bahrain: Prisoner of conscience, Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja denied healthcare
Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja has not been seen by a cardiologist since he experienced cardiac arrhythmia in jail on February 28, 2023. A doctor who examined him at […]
