The security forces used excessive force to impose COVID-19 restrictions and dozens of people, including children, were unlawfully killed. Human rights defenders were arrested for disseminating health information and distributing masks and hand sanitizer to Indigenous communities. The rights to...

On 24 August 2022, Angolans will have their fifth general election since 1992. This human rights manifesto is intended to encourage all the Angolan political parties and their candidates in this electoral cycle to provide information to the electorate on what they intend to do, and how, to tackle...

Authorities across Southern Africa must immediately take action to protect girls’ rights to health, information, education, equality and to live freely from gender-based violence and discrimination, Amnesty International said today as the world continues to mark 16 Days of Activism against...

Angola is greatly affected by the negative impacts of climate change. Southern Angola is experiencing the worst drought in 40 years. The increasingly severe drought in the region has severely affected the pastoralists’ ability to grow food over the years. In the prolonged drought, grazing and...

Since the declaration of the state of emergency to deal with the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020, Angolan security forces in various provinces have resorted to unnecessary, excessive, abusive and even lethal force to deal with infringements of public health measures and peaceful demonstrations....

Amnesty International in collaboration with Advancing Rights in Southern Africa (ARISA), Southern Africa Human Rights Defenders Network (SAHRDN), Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) are writing this letter to bring to your attention the worrying restrictive COVID-19 regulations presenting...

In this joint letter, civil society organizations express their concern with reports of continuing harassment, intimidations and arbitrary detention of human rights defenders in the Cuando Cubango province, namely the members of the non-governmental organization Mission of Beneficence Agriculture...

The government of Cuando Cubango province has been broadcasting essential information on COVID-19 through radio and television. However, Indigenous peoples in the rural areas of the province do not have access to electronic broadcasting due to the lack of electricity. The work of activists and...

Amnesty International welcomes Angola’s acceptance of 259 recommendations, including those regarding freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, ratification of four international human rights treaties in October last year, and the adoption of a national human rights strategy. We urge...

Amnesty International welcomes the ratification by the Angolan authorities on 2 October 2019 of four major human rights treaties as a positive step that must now be followed by effective action to improve respect for human rights in the country, Amnesty International said today.

In Angola’s southern province of Huila lies the Gambos municipality, the home of Tunda and Chimbolela, the customary grazing commons for the region’s pastoralists. Since the end of the civil war in 2002, the authorities have been diverting communal grazing land of Tunda dos Gambos and Vale de...

This document contains Amnesty International’s suggested recommendations to be made to the twelve States undergoing their UPR during the 34th session of the Universal Periodic Review.

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review of Angola in November 2019. It assesses the national human rights framework regarding land and human rights, fundamental freedoms and LGBTI rights. Amnesty International raises concerns about the continued lack of investigation of human...