News
Russian Federation
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Reacting to the news that Russian law enforcement officers have searched the homes of members of Memorial, Russia’s oldest human rights organization and Nobel Peace Prize awardee, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, said: “By raiding the homes of members of Memorial, the...
March 21, 2023
News
Asia and the Pacific
Responding to the arrest of Kashmiri journalist, Irfan Mehraj, in Srinagar by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in connection with a “terror funding case”, Aakar Patel, chair of board at Amnesty International India, said: “The arrest of Kashmiri journalist Irfan Mehraj under terror...
March 21, 2023
Research
Africa
Armed Conflict
Given Ethiopia government’s repeated denial of credible allegations of international crimes committed by all actors (including by the Eritrean government), deep rooted culture of impunity and weak domestic legal infrastructure (such as the absence of a provision on crime against humanity), what...
March 21, 2023
News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
Amnesty International offices around the world will today deliver petitions signed by more than 200,000 people to Israeli authorities, calling on them to put an end to the demolition of Palestinian homes as a first step towards dismantling apartheid. Amnesty...
March 21, 2023
Research
Racial Discrimination
Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the strategic vision of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The submission is structured around some of the themes covered in the questions laid out by the...
March 21, 2023
News
Europe and Central Asia
EU
French lawmakers must reject any plans to use video surveillance powered by artificial intelligence (AI) at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Such draconian technologies of mass surveillance violate the rights to privacy and can lead to violations of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful...
March 20, 2023
News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Freedom of Movement
Eve Geddie is the director of Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office, which leads Amnesty’s work toward the EU and Council of Europe. Earlier this month, a delegation of European diplomats visited Huwara and Za’tara, two Palestinian towns in the Nablus Governorate, where...
March 20, 2023
News
Africa
An Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report issued today, which warns that global warming this century is on course to exceed an agreed 1.5˚C limit without drastic and immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, must accelerate the phasing out of fossil fuels, Amnesty International...
March 20, 2023
News
Iraq
Justice Systems
On the 20-year anniversary of the invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, Amnesty International today renewed its calls for justice and full reparation for gross human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law perpetrated by the United States-led Coalition....
March 20, 2023
News
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Amnesty International collected testimonies alleging excessive use of force by Sierra Leonean security forces to crack down on protests which turned violent in Freetown, Makeni and Kamakwie in August 2022, in which six police officers and more than 20 protesters and bystanders were killed,...
March 20, 2023
Campaigns
Asia and the Pacific
Killings and Disappearances
Zhanargul Zhumatai, an ethnic Kazakh journalist and artist, was taken away from her mother’s house in Urumqi, Xinjiang, on 10 February. The state security police detained her after she communicated with people abroad and spoke out for the land rights of Kazakh herding communities. Zhumatai had...
March 20, 2023