The proposed changes could lead to a ban on abortions, putting the lives of women and girlsat risk and potentially increasing maternal deaths in the country.
The use of the death penalty is in decline globally. Japan is one of the few industrialized countries to continue to use it, hanging a small number of prisoners ...
Japan is one of only two industrialized countries that retains the death penalty and uses it. Its use is veiled in secrecy, with prisoners informed of their fate ...
Norboi Kholzhigitov, a 60-year-old male human rights activist, is critically-ill in an Uzbekistan prison. Whilst in detention he has not been receiving the treatment ...
In this memorandum Amnesty International assesses the human rights situation in Zimbabwe since the creation of an Inclusive Government in February 2009. Amnesty ...
In this submission, Amnesty International provides information as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic ...
In this submission, Amnesty International focuses on ongoing human rights violations suffered by residents of the former Yugoslav republics who had been living ...
