More Than 60 Groups Urge General Assembly to Establish New Investigative Mechanism The United Nations General Assembly should act swiftly to establish an investigative mechanism to gather and preserve evidence of serious human rights abuses and violations of the laws of war in Yemen, a coalition of...

Spokespeople recently returned from Samos camp available for interview  Asylum-seekers staying in a new EU-funded refugee camp on the island of Samos are being detained illegally by Greek authorities following a yet...

Responding to the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA)’s decision to halt all competitions in China, Doriane Lau, Amnesty International’s China researcher said: “Amnesty International shares the WTA’s concern about the state censorship around allegations made by Peng Shuai and the related...

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Responding to Saudi Arabia’s hosting of a Formula One Grand Prix this weekend, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “Over the last few years, the Saudi Arabian authorities have invested heavily in PR stunts to rebrand their image and...

More than 61 children still in captivity months after mass abduction by bandits.  More than 780 children abducted for ransom in 2021   Many schools shutdown indefinitely because of rising insecurity   Nigerian authorities are failing children as at least 61 children in northern Nigeria remain in...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the unprecedented pressure placed by the Russian authorities on defence lawyers Ivan Pavlov and Evgeny Smirnov representing Russian journalist, Ivan Safronov, who has been charged with high treason. The organization is also concerned about the...

This paper sets out Amnesty International’s key recommendations for the 20th session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute. The recommendations focus on the plenary debates and key topics on the Assembly’s agenda, including the ‘Independent Expert Review of the ICC’, the ICC’s...

Eight political activists are on trial or awaiting trial in Ingushetia (Southern Russia) for leading a peaceful protest campaign in 2018 and 2019. They are facing serious charges, including participation in an “extremist association”, that could lead to prison terms of up to nine years. Having...

At the 20th Session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Rome Statute, Amnesty International urges states parties to consider how the decisions and positions they adopt now – in The Assembly and outside of it – may fatally undermine the future of the International Criminal...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about the unprecedented pressure placed by the Russian authorities on defence lawyers Ivan Pavlov and Evgeny Smirnov representing Russian journalist, Ivan Safronov, who has been charged with high treason. The organization is also concerned about the...

Reacting to the news that Marfa Rabkova, a human rights defender and coordinator of the NGO Viasna’s Volunteer Service, is facing fresh charges linked to “endangering national security” that could lead up to 20 years in prison for 11 criminal offenses, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s...