Amnesty International submits this document to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of the review of Namibia’s third periodic report1, raising concerns of ongoing challenges faced by the LGBTI community in Namibia based on findings from a report published in January 2024 entitled ‘We are facing extinction.’ This document should not be seen as…
Amnesty International submits this document to the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in advance of the adoption of the List of Issues for Namibia in March 2024. It highlights the organization’s concerns regarding the right to health, specifically focusing on the alarming prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) within the Indigenous San populations in…
Across Africa, LGBTI persons face a distressing regression of progress, enduring relentless protests and formidable obstacles to their rights. This review exposes an alarming trend: the weaponization of law to target and marginalize the LGBTI community, exacerbating a deteriorating state of human rights. During 2022/23, there was a surge in fear, attacks, increased oppression, and…
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 Gender-Based Violence. Soaring rates of sexual abuse in the region in combination with closure…
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that usually affects the lungs, though it can affect any organ in the body. It can develop when bacteria spread through droplets in the air. TB can be fatal, but in many cases, TB is preventable and treatable. This report examines the human rights impact of the prevalence of…
Southern Africa is now dangerously in the midst of its third wave of Covid-19 infections. Amnesty International identifies SADC’s economic challenges as a root cause of their inability to respond effectively to the pandemic and to access vaccines. This briefing calls on key regional and international actors to urgently take action to reduce debt commitments…
Health and essential workers have played an extraordinary role in the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across countries, they have put their health and wellbeing at risk, often in very difficult circumstances and with very little support, to ensure that people are able to access the essential services they need. They have faced reprisals…
This document contains Amnesty International’s suggested recommendations for the 14 states – Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Palau, Paraguay, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands and Somalia – that are coming up for review in the UPR Working Group session commencing 18 January 2016 aimed at addressing human rights challenges and improving respect…
In this document Amnesty International makes recommendations to the governments of various states about ending torture, arbitrary arrests, the death penalty, for example. The organization also makes wide-ranging recommendations about ESCR, violence against women, forced evictions, prison conditions, the International Criminal Court and freedoms of association and expression.
1) Executions in Uzbekistan 2) Viet Nam restricts Internet freedom 3) Rape committed with impunity in Burundi 4) The ‘forgotten detainees’ of the Bahamas 5) Human rights defenders in the Americas under attack 6) Worldwide Appeals. USA: Death sentence after misconduct by the prosecution; Indonesia: Abepura victims still waiting for justice after nearly three years;…
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