This submission sets out some of Amnesty International’s key concerns and recommendations related to the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the government of Hong Kong SAR. It highlights a crackdown on the city’s largest trade unions, severe...

Poster for Chow Hang-tung’s Write for Rights campaign

Case card for Chow Hang-tung’s Write for Rights campaign

This submission sets out some of Amnesty International’s key concerns and recommendations related to the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the government of the Hong Kong SAR. It highlights concerns with regard to Emergency Regulations Ordinance, National...

This briefing summarizes the kinds of acts that the authorities in Hong Kong claim to fall under the category of “endangering national security” since the NSL took effect and documents human rights violations (including the right to free trial) that have been perpetrated under the NSL. It also sets...

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...

In this statement, issued in the context of the interactive dialogue with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights during the 44th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC44), Amnesty International expresses deep concern over the passing of the national security law for Hong Kong. The statement...

This submission sets out some of Amnesty International’s key concerns and recommendations related to the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the government of the Hong Kong SAR (HKSAR). It highlights concerns with regard to judicial independence; freedom of...

This document sets out the necessity and international legal framework for establishing a commission of inquiry to investigate the widespread human rights violations related to the protests that erupted in 2019. It also makes recommendations regarding the establishment of such a commission,...

Amnesty International is concerned to learn of the arrest of human rights monitors Robert Godden and Jennifer Wang on the morning of 18 November as they attempted to exit a police cordon set up around protests centered at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, as well as the potential ill-treatment...

Twenty-two NGOs issued a statement today to call on the UN’s highest official principally responsible for human rights, High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, to publicly denounce the Hong Kong Government for its systematic violations of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of...

Huge numbers of people took to the streets of Hong Kong to demand their human rights during two large-scale protests, the Umbrella Movement in 2014 and the Extradition Bill protests in 2019. But the response to these protests has also demonstrated that the Hong Kong authorities are willing use...