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Russia/Ukraine: Lilia Hemedzhy disbarred

Lilia Hemedzhy is a human rights defender and lawyer. She is one of the few lawyers working to defend the...

Iran: Draconian campaign to enforce compulsory veiling laws through surveillance and mass car confiscations 

Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls...

JCB Must Say No To Bulldozer Injustice in India

In India, shops and homes of Muslims are being demolished by state authorities using bulldozers as a collective form of...

China: Free Huseyin Celil

Huseyin Celil is a member of China’s Uyghur minority and a human rights activist. In 2001, he fled China after...

Afghanistan: Taliban must halt all executions and abolish death penalty

Responding to the double public executions by the Taliban yesterday, Livia Saccardi, Amnesty International’s interim Deputy Regional Director for South...

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations  

Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since...

UN Doha meeting on Afghanistan must mark an end to impunity for human rights abuse under the Taliban

Ahead of the upcoming UN-convened meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan taking place in Doha, Qatar on 18 and 19...

India: Authorities must immediately stop unjust targeted demolition of Muslim properties

Bulldozer Injustice: JCB brand machinery weaponized as a tool in hate campaign against minorities in India India’s widespread unlawful demolitions...

Kanahus Manuel: “Canada must end violence against Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ land and water defenders”

Kanahus Manuel is a land and water defender, tattoo artist and traditional birth keeper belonging to the Secwepemc and Ktunaxa...

Ukraine: Russian invasion has forced older people with disabilities to endure isolation and neglect – new report

Displaced older people with disabilities in Ukraine are physically and financially unable to access adequate housing and care amid Russia’s...

Ontario ruling on sex work law endangers workers’ rights: Amnesty International Canada

Responding to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s dismissal of a constitutional challenge against Canada’s criminal laws forbidding sex work,...

Uganda: Repeal anti-homosexuality act and ensure accountability

On May 26, the Ugandan President assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023. The Act criminalizes same-sex conduct between consenting adults...

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