This report illustrates some of the cases of human rights violations perpetrated against nurses, the problems posed to nurses by inadequate conditions in prisons, the infliction of corporal punishment and the death penalty, the role of the nurse in forensic investigations, and nurses as carers for refugees and asylum seekers. Amnesty International believes that nurses and nursing organizations have an important role to play in the defence of human rights in general and the protection of nurses’ rights in particular.
Nurses and human rights
Topics
- Armed Conflict
- Armed Groups
- Arms Trade
- Censorship and Freedom of Expression
- Children
- Corporal Punishment
- Death Penalty
- Detention
- Discrimination
- Human Rights Defenders and Activists
- Impunity
- International Organizations
- Justice Systems
- Killings and Disappearances
- Penal Institutions
- Prisoners of Conscience
- Protests and Demonstrations
- Racial Discrimination
- Refugees
- Religious Groups
- Report
- Research
- Right to Health
- Sexual Violence
- Torture and other ill-treatment
- Unfair Trials
- Unlawful Killings
- Women and Girls
- Women's Rights
- Youth and Human Rights