Responding to reports that Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) killed dozens in an air strike on a crowded market in the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) controlled town of Kabkabiya in North Darfur, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “Bombing a market full of civilians is one of the clearest examples…
Four separate air strikes by Israeli forces, which killed at least 49 civilians and decimated entire families in Lebanon, must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said today. Under international law, direct attacks on civilians or civilian objects, indiscriminate attacks that kill or injure civilians, and disproportionate attacks that cause excessive incidental civilian loss…
Amnesty International condemns the reports of mass killings that occurred between 6 and 7 December in the Wharf Jérémie neighborhood in Cité Soleil; the gang attack resulted in the deaths of 180 people, reported the Haitian prime minister’s office. ‘’We are urging the Haitian authorities and the international community to redouble their efforts to protect the population in…
It has been two years since more than 1,400 people were injured in different regions of Peru by bullets, pellets, and tear gas fired by the police and the army during protests in different regions of the country between December 2022 and March 2023. This is the story of four of the survivors of these…
Reacting to news that the Russian State Duma has passed a bill banning migrant children who do not speak Russian from enrolling in schools, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, said: “This bill not only blatantly violates international law, which Russia is bound by, but also the country’s own Constitution, which prohibits discrimination and guarantees…
Following today’s confirmation of Saudi Arabia as hosts of the 2034 World Cup at FIFA’s Extraordinary Congress, 21 organizations have published a joint statement condemning the move as a “moment of great danger” for human rights. Signatories include Saudi diaspora human rights organizations, migrant workers’ groups from Nepal and Kenya, international trade unions, fans’ representatives…
Responding to reports from Mozambican civil society groups that the death toll during protests has reached at least 110, with 34 people killed in the last week alone, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa, Khanyo Farise, said: “Enough is enough. For more than 50 days, Mozambique’s Frelimo-led government has refused to end…
The former governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province and two other senior army officers must be investigated for possible crimes against humanity committed while suppressing a demonstration in Goma city, in which at least 56 people were unlawfully killed and over 80 wounded on 30 August 2023, Amnesty International said…