The regional overview summarizes the human rights situation and developments in the region throughout 2019. As the deadline closed in for regional political commitments to “Silencing the Guns” by 2020, intractable armed conflicts continued, and new forms of violence by non-state actors led...

The regional overview summarizes the human rights situation and developments in the region throughout 2019. Inequality, corruption, violence, environmental degradation, impunity and the weakening of institutions continued to be a common reality across the Americas, resulting in daily human...

The regional overview summarizes the human rights situation and developments in the region throughout 2020. The onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the human rights situation in the Asia-Pacific region. It was the first region affected by the COVID-19 pandemic as the first cases were...

Government responses to COVID-19 threatened a wide range of rights in Europe and Central Asia and exposed the human cost of social exclusion, inequality and state overreach. Under-resourcing of health systems and failure to provide adequate PPE exacerbated the death rates, workers faced barriers in...

Governments across the region responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by declaring states of emergency or passing legislation with excessive restrictions on freedom of expression. People were prosecuted for their legitimate criticism of their governments’ handed response to the pandemic. Health workers...

In the space of two weeks, two major shipwrecks claimed well over 100 lives in the Mediterranean. Amnesty International is concerned that both these tragic events represent the foreseeable outcome of legislation, policies and practices introduced by successive Italian governments that have...

Dear Prime Minister, Amnesty International takes note of your commitments to protect human rights in Iraq, which are an important signal, but is concerned about recent decisions by your government impacting freedom of expression. We write to urge you to take more decisive measures to break with the...

On 18 January 2023, Germany deported Abdullohi Shamsiddin to Tajikistan, where he has not been seen by his family since. Family members and Radio Ozodi reported that he phoned his wife on 6 March and told her that he was held by the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) of Tajikistan. He is...

By failing to comply with its international obligations and national legislation, the Chilean state is endangering Venezuelans who have fled their country and are seeking protection, Amnesty International found in a new report, “No one wants to live in secrecy”: Lack of protection for Venezuelan...

Chile had failed to fulfil its obligation to protect people who have fled Venezuela to protect their lives. On the contrary, for those people in need of international protection who manage to enter Chile, accessing refugee status or regularizing their migratory status is an obstacle course. Amnesty...

The Syrian government and Türkiye-backed armed opposition groups should stop obstructing and diverting humanitarian aid aimed at alleviating the suffering of tens of thousands of civilians in conflict-torn Aleppo, said Amnesty International, a month today since the governorate was devastated by...

Reacting to the growing pressure on FIFA from its own members, led by the Norwegian Football Association, for it to remedy human rights abuses connected to the 2022 football World Cup, Amnesty International’s Head of Economic and Social Justice Steve Cockburn said: “With so many of Qatar’s migrant...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned at the treatment of migrants and refugees in the Ceuta-Melilla border region by both Spanish and Moroccan police and border officials and the ongoing risk they face of serious violations of their human rights in that location.

Responding to yesterday’s tragic shipwreck off the coast of Steccato di Cutro, in which at least 62 migrants, including children, lost their lives, Eve Geddie, Amnesty International’s Europe Director of Advocacy, said: “The grief and horror felt by all of us over these tragic deaths must be...

Responding to the news that Botswana and Namibia have agreed to allow people to move freely between the two countries, Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “This agreement, which marks the first of its kind in Southern Africa, is a step in the right...

Human rights protection must be upheld following the catastrophic earthquakes that devastated south-eastern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February and again on 20 February, Amnesty International said today in a new publication outlining human rights concerns and obligations of the authorities....

The catastrophic earthquakes that devastated southeastern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February and again on 20 February require a committed and sustained global humanitarian response. To date, the combined death toll is over 46,000 and climbing. Hundreds of thousands have been left homeless and...