In response to a ruling by the Constitutional Court of Taiwan that found the death penalty constitutional for offences such as murder, E-Ling Chiu, Director of Amnesty International Taiwan, said: “Today’s decision is a small step for human rights in Taiwan. The Constitutional Court has recognized...

An international investigation must be established to hold perpetrators of the simultaneous mass explosions targeting electronic devices across Lebanon and Syria, which injured more than 2,931 people and killed at least 37, including at least four civilians, accountable, said Amnesty International...

The UN Human Rights Council must respond to the grave findings of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela (FFM) and renew its critical mandate, said Amnesty International as the FFM presented its latest report to the Council this week. The report details “one of the most acute human rights crisis”...

Oral statement during the interactive dialogue with the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela at the 57th session of the Human Rights Council. Today, more than ever, we emphatically call on this Council to renew the FFM’s mandate and to redouble its support for human rights defenders, the right to...

On Saturday, 14th September, environmental defender and coordinator of the Municipal Committee for the Defence of Common and Public Assets Juan López was murdered as he was leaving his work as a community and religious leader in the parish of San Isidro Labrador in the municipality of Tocoa,...

The ‘Financial Action Task Force’ (FATF) in its Mutual Evaluation Report pulls up the Indian government on the risk to abuse that the non-profit sector faces in India, said Amnesty International today. It also flags the delay in prosecutions in India under its money laundering and anti-terrorism...

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard will be in New York for the opening of the high-level General Debate of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and participating in the Summit of The Future. She will be available for interviews in New York City from 20 to 24...

Responding to the 14-month prison sentence handed to Hong Kong man Chu Kai-pong for wearing a “seditious” T-shirt and mask, Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks said: “Just when you thought the human rights situation in Hong Kong couldn’t get any bleaker, a man is condemned to more...

This submission was prepared for the fourth cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Slovenia. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Slovenia in its previous review, including in relation to the discrimination against Roma, refugees’ and...

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Responding to the adoption of a UN General Assembly resolution today demanding that Israel end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) within 12 months, in compliance with the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) July advisory opinion, Amnesty International’s Secretary...

The international community must take concrete steps to help secure the release of the Uyghur academic Ilham Tohti, Amnesty International said ahead of the 10-year-anniversary of his conviction on baseless charges of “separatism”.  Tohti was sentenced to life imprisonment on 23 September 2014 after...