Amnesty International reiterates its call for the immediate and unconditional release of all civilian hostages, some of them children, who have been held in the occupied Gaza Strip for a […]

On September 19, 2020, a group of armed men abducted Sajjad al-Iraqi from a vehicle he was travelling in with his friends in Nasiriya, Thi Qar governorate, Iraq. Sajjad is […]

Ahead of the Pakistan Government’s deadline on 1 November 2023 for forced deportations of unregistered Afghan refugees, Deprose Muchena, Amnesty International’s Senior Director, said: “Amnesty International strongly reiterates its call […]

Acquitted, after facing 15 years for peacefully protesting Rita Karasartova credits the powerful solidarity of the Write for Rights campaign for giving her hope. She faced 15 years’ imprisonment in […]

Social media companies must urgently address the fanning of online hate and racism against Palestinian and Jewish communities, Amnesty International said today, as the conflict in Israel and the Occupied […]

Reading the news can be really depressing. Sometimes there seems to be so much wrong in the world, the idea of changing it for the better feels impossible. But as […]

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.