Left to right: Adolfo Campos, Gildo das Ruas, Tanaice Neutro, Pensador ©amnesty

Amnesty International provides the below information to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of its consideration of the second periodic report of Türkiye at the 142nd session of the Committee to be held between 14 October and 8 November 2024.

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This submission has been prepared ahead of the examination of Greece’s Sate party’s report, and of the adoption of the Concluding Observation and List of Issues for Greece by the UN Human Rights Committee in the context of its 142nd session, on 14 October – 7 November 2024.

Amnesty International submits this briefing ahead of the seventh periodic review of Ecuador by the UN Human Rights Committee in October 2024. This is not an exhaustive set of issues. It sets out the organization’s main concerns regarding the protection of certain civil and political rights in the...

Marcellus Williams, a 55-year-old Black man, is scheduled to be executed in Missouri on 24 September 2024. He was convicted by an almost all-white jury in 2001 of the 1998 murder of a white woman and sentenced to death. The primary evidence at trial was informant testimony provided by two...

This week marks one year since Jordan’s new draconian Cybercrime Law entered into force. This law has proven to be a tool for state repression, stifling dissent and curtailing the human rights of individuals online, including the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and privacy....

By Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International Multiple wars, extreme inequality, a looming climate collapse, and new technologies capable of transforming our very existence have brought humanity to a crossroads. We have no time left for complacency or defeatism—only a shared...

“He wants to see  equality in Angola”   16 September marks one year since Adolfo Campos has been arbitrarily detained. We met with his wife, Rosa Mendes, and their four kids, to hear more about what an entire year, without their father has been like. Rosa Mendes, opened her home and her heart to...

People in Iran continue to endure the devastating consequences of the authorities’ brutal crackdown on the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising amid systematic impunity for crimes under international law, Amnesty International said today, ahead of the two-year anniversary of the protests that saw people...

The Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority, according to new research by Amnesty International. The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) in East Tajikistan is home to several ethnic groups forming the...