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Kenyan security forces arrive at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince on June 25, 2024. The Kenyan forces begin a high-stakes mission to restore order in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Photo by CLARENS SIFFROY/AFP via Getty Images.

Child Protection urged as the Multinational Security Support Mission deploys to Haiti

As the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission, led by the Kenyan police, began to deploy to Haiti last month, Amnesty...

Kenyan police officers intervene in people during a protest against the tax hikes in planned 'Finance Bill 2024' as they march to the parliament building in Nairobi, Kenya on June 25, 2024. Photo by Gerald Anderson/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Kenya: Security services must respect fundamental rights during nationwide protests

Amnesty International Kenya calls on the National Police Service (NPS) and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to uphold their constitutional...

A hand holding a rectangular glass trophy with a brown wooden base under a tree canopy

Nominations open for 2023-2024 Amnesty International Canada Media Awards

Nominations for Amnesty International Canada's Media Awards, which celebrate excellence in Canadian human rights reporting, are due August 7....
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waves after arriving at Canberra Airport in Canberra on June 26, 2024. Photo by WILLIAM WEST / AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images.

UK/USA: Fight for media freedom continues as Assange reaches plea deal with US authorities

Julian Assange’s release from a UK prison and return to Australia is welcomed news, following a plea deal with the...

Russian authorities arbitrarily deprive prisoners of contact with their families and friends. © Amnesty International

Russia: Authorities punishing imprisoned anti-war critics and dissenters by denying family contact

Russia’s authorities are systematically denying arbitrarily imprisoned government and anti-war critics contact with their families, Amnesty International revealed in a...

Julian Assange released ©Amnesty International

Julian Assange released from UK prison

Reacting to Julian Assange’s release from Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard,...

A group of Sudanese women and children detained in a makeshift detention centre inside a military site in Aswan governorate in Egypt, that borders Sudan, pending their forced return to Sudan, January 2024. (private photo)

Egypt: Authorities must end campaign of mass arrests and forced returns of Sudanese refugees

The Egyptian authorities must immediately cease the mass arbitrary arrests and unlawful deportations of Sudanese refugees who had crossed the...

Kyrgyzstan: Acquittal in “Kempir-Abad case” is a victory for justice and human rights

Reacting to the acquittal of at least 22 of the defendants in the so-called “Kempir-Abad case,” Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s...

Oday Al Talab, a Syrian refugee living in the UK, who lost one of his brothers in the Pylos shipwreck in 2023. Photo © Oday Al Talab

Greece: Pylos shipwreck anniversary

“Over 600 people drowned in the Pylos shipwreck, including my brother. They are not numbers. They are people,” writes Oday...

Chief Na'Moks overlooks CGL Pipeline construction road cutting through Wet'suwet'en Territory

International Delegation to Attend Trials of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

A delegation of Amnesty International representatives from France, Germany, the United States and Canada will attend the trials of Wet’suwet’en...

Boko Haram report cover Amnesty International

Nigeria: Girls failed by authorities after escaping Boko Haram captivity

Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria faced further suffering, including sometimes in unlawful military...

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