Reports of various human rights violations from Afghanistan keep coming in and it is impossible to cover the full scope of these violations. This briefing aims to document some of these serious violations, highlight the lack of accountability by the Taliban and the weak international response to...

A letter from human rights organizations to the King of Bahrain and the Crown Prince and Prime Minister to immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, an academic, activist and blogger imprisoned in Bahrain who has been on hunger strike for 400 days, and in the meantime, to...

A joint letter sent by Human Rights Watch to 193 countries on the United Nations Transforming Education Summit countersigned by 12 organizations including Amnesty International mistakenly addressed the letter to Myanmar military general Min Aung Hlaing as the country’s prime minister. Other members...

In response to protests that erupted due to the high cost of living on 10 August in Sierra Leone where dozens of people have lost their lives, the authorities have promised to investigate the circumstances leading to the loss of life. “When policing assemblies, security forces have an obligation to...

A UN Security Council session due to take place today must urgently prioritize civilian protection and accountability for the litany of war crimes committed by Russian forces and call for an end to Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Amnesty International said. Russia requested the Security...

After exhausting all avenues, families of the disappeared and activists are forced to publicly campaign and peacefully protest against enforced disappearances. These peaceful protests are at times met with violence by the state, and families and activists are intimidated and arbitrarily detained...

On Monday 8 August,  the  Centre for Strategic Communications and Information Security made a series of false allegations about how Amnesty International had obtained evidence used in our 4 August press release on Ukraine.    Amnesty International categorically refutes these allegations,...

As a reaction to the dissolution of the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) and the summoning of a journalist to a military camp, Habibatou Gologo, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa office, has said: ” On Monday 8 August the Guinean...

Amnesty International and CIVICUS urge the Fiji government to drop contempt charges against lawyer Richard Naidu, for highlighting a spelling mistake in a court judgment on social media. The proceedings are likely to have a chilling effect on freedom of expression are not a necessary or...