Approval of the privileged legitimate defence bill, known as the Nain Retamal Law, which increases the penalties for crimes committed against members of the Carabineros police force, Investigative Police and Gendarmerie, and establishes privileged legitimate defence regarding actions related to the...

Responding to a report by the Financial Times that India is searching for alternative spyware technology to replace NSO Group’s Pegasus surveillance software, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of the Security Lab at Amnesty International, said:   “It is chilling that instead of respecting...

Reacting to reports that proposed EU business legislation will exempt companies from addressing the human rights risks linked to how their products are used, including arms, tools of torture or surveillance equipment, Amnesty International’s Policy Advisor on Business and Human Rights Hannah Storey...

On 23 January 2023, the Assam government announced that it is launching a crackdown on people who “participated in child marriage” in the last seven years in the state. Since then, at least 6000 people have been accused including the persons who officiated child marriages and over 3000 people have...

The Cambodian government’s ongoing removal of a reported ten thousand families from the Angkor Wat temple complex amounts to mass forced evictions, Amnesty International said today, as it called on authorities to immediately stop this violation of human rights.  During March, Amnesty...

We are concerned about the continuation of the human rights violations in the DRC, and the persistent lack of tangible steps to address impunity. In North Kivu and Ituri provinces, many civilians continue to be killed despite the existence of long-standing military operations and the Luanda and...

On 29 March, Bangladeshi journalist Shamsuzzaman Shams was picked up from his residence by a group in civil clothes that identified as the Criminal Investigations Department for an online article he wrote for newspaper Prothom Alo on 26 March, Bangladesh’s Independence Day, covering the rising cost...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Canada on 10 November 2023. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Canada in its previous UPR. It also assesses the national human rights framework with regards to international...

On Thursday 30 March, Air Canada staff denied Ketty Nivyabandi, the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada’s English-speaking section, permission to board a flight from Ottawa to Mexico City, without justification. Ketty Nivyabandi is a permanent resident of Canada and holds a refugee...

**Update: On 30 March, a court in Tunisia refused a request for provisional release by lawyers for eight people detained under investigation for alleged conspiracy.** Tunisian authorities should drop a criminal investigation targeting at least 17 people including political opponents of President...

Next week the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (HRC) will decide whether to renew the mandate of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan (CHRSS) – presently the only credible mechanism to collect and preserve evidence of human rights violations and crimes under international law in...

The findings by Europe’s top anti-torture body that authorities across Europe have used practices which amount to torture to target refugees and migrants who tried to cross Europe’s borders, strengthen calls for urgent change, said Amnesty International. The report released today by the Council of...