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Women human rights defenders call on EU foreign affairs ministers for support amid unprecedented crackdown on activists

A day before the informal ‘Gymnich’ meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers in Vienna, women human rights defenders from El...

Nigeria: Police violate Owerri women’s right to peaceful protest

Responding to the arrest and detention of 114 Owerri women protestors who had been peacefully demanding the whereabouts of Indigenous...

Saudi Arabia: Outrageous ongoing detention of women’s rights defenders reaches 100 days

The ongoing arbitrary detention of several women’s rights defenders in Saudi Arabia is outrageous, Amnesty International said today, as three...

USA: Florida’s diehard pursuit of the death penalty is a blot on the Sunshine State

Florida’s approach to the death penalty is deepening its outlier status on this human rights issue and has now added...

Cambodia: Land rights activist Tep Vanny released from prison following royal pardon

Responding to the news that human rights defender Tep Vanny has been released from prison following a royal pardon after...

UN: Kofi Annan, lifelong champion of justice, peace and dignity

Responding to this morning’s announcement of the passing of Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary-general who won the Nobel Peace...

Colombia: Authorities must act to prevent to displacement of 3,600 Indigenous people in Chocó

In response to reports indicating that some 3,600 Indigenous people from 14 communities find themselves trapped in the middle of...

New Secretary General Kumi Naidoo pledges support for African human rights defenders to hold the powerful to account

The new Secretary General of the world’s biggest human rights organization, Kumi Naidoo, met with human rights activists from across...

Indonesia: Dozens killed on the streets in police crackdown ahead of Asian Games

Indonesian police have shot dead more than 70 people in an escalating crackdown on what they have called ‘petty criminals’...

Bangladesh: Nearly 100 arrests as pall of fear descends on civil society

The Bangladeshi authorities must end the crackdown on protests that has swept up nearly 100 people, Amnesty International said today....

Yemen: Human rights activist abducted by the Huthi armed group must be released

Yemen’s Huthi armed group must reveal the fate and whereabouts of an activist abducted by two of its militants in...

“Bigger, bolder and more inclusive”: Kumi Naidoo sets out his vision for human rights

Amnesty’s first ever South African Secretary General sets out his vision for the direction of the world’s largest human rights...

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