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Israel/OPT: latest Gaza offensive highlights human toll of apartheid

In its early May offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip, Israel unlawfully destroyed Palestinian homes, often without military necessity, in what...

July 8, 2022, a Taliban fighter holds a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) at a road checkpoint near the Bazarak district in Panjshir Province. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Afghanistan: Taliban’s cruel attacks in Panjshir province amount to war crime of collective punishment

The Taliban have committed the war crime of collective punishment against civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, Amnesty International said in...

NEW YORK, US - JUNE 06: The Downtown Manhattan skyline stands shrouded in a reddish haze as a result of Canadian wildfires on June 06, 2023 in New York City. Over 100 wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and Quebec resulting in air quality health alerts for the Adirondacks, Eastern Lake Ontario, Central New York and Western New York. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Health risks from Canadian wildfires an indictment of climate change failures

The Canadian wildfires highlight the need to act boldly and quickly to curb the worst impacts of climate change, Amnesty...
Four people — two men on the outside and two Hijab-wearing women on the inside — smile for the camera outside a police station.

Türkiye: Justice prevails as four human rights defenders finally acquitted

A court has decided to overturn baseless convictions of Amnesty International Türkiye’s Honorary Chair and three other human rights defenders....
Eduardo Peres Alberto pictured sitting in front of a cream background with a nose mask beneath his chin.

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...

Human rights lawyer and China’s labour rights advocate Chow Hang-tung, currently imprisoned, was charged for “inciting subversion” under the new National Security Law on 9 September 2021 and faces potential 10 years’ imprisonment. Photo: Alex Chan

Chow Hang-tung wins 2023 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights

Imprisoned human rights lawyer and labour rights advocate Chow Hang-tung was awarded the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights by the...

A protester holds 'Stop executions in Iran' and 'Free Iran' placards during the demonstration in London, on January 14, 2023. Demonstrators gathered outside Downing Street in protest against executions in Iran and in support of freedom for Iran. (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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...

Tiananmen Square Demonstrators (Photo by David Turnley/Getty Images)

Remembering Tiananmen Square: the hidden history of China’s protest movement

On June 4, 1989, Chinese troops shot dead hundreds, if not thousands, of people who had taken to the streets...

A woman identifying as a lesbian makes jewellery to sell whilst at a shelter for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women on April 24, 2023 in Kampala, Uganda.

Uganda: President’s approval of anti-LGBTI Bill is a grave assault on human rights

Responding to the news that President Yoweri Museveni assented to Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023, which criminalizes same-sex sexual acts between...

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Iran: Youth jailed at 17 to be executed in less than 36 hours

Hossein Shahbazi, 22, is at risk of imminent execution in relation to a crime that took place when he was...

Taliban members stop women protesting for women's rights in Kabul on October 21, 2021. Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images.

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...

In Peru, a line on police officials in Peru hold weapons behind a haze of smoke, tear gas or another crowd-control agent.

Peru: Senior officials should be investigated over lethal repression of widespread protests

Amnesty International calls on Peru's attorney general to probe the use of lethal force that resulted in 49 deaths during...
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