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...

Ahead of the expected decision (19 April) in the final preliminary hearing of the Iuventa trial, Elisa De Pieri, Amnesty International’s Regional Researcher, said: “The court’s upcoming decision will have momentous consequences for future search and rescue operations, and on the lives of the...

Responding to today’s European Parliament vote to adopt a package of new European Union (EU) laws on migration and asylum, Eve Geddie, Amnesty International’s Head of the European Institutions Office and Director of Advocacy, said: “After years of negotiations, EU institutions are now shamefully...

Ahead of the European Parliament’s final vote on the European Union (EU) Pact on Migration and Asylum on 10 April, Amnesty International warns that these reforms will put people at heightened risk of human rights violations. “It is clearer than ever that this EU Pact on Migration and Asylum will...

Pakistan’s 'Repatriation Plan’ is in violation of refugee and international human rights law and puts all Afghan refugees at risk.

This document contains the recommendations that Amnesty International suggests to the government of the Dominican Republic in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review 2024.

In an open letter addressed to the president of the Dominican Republic and other state institutions, Amnesty International, together with local human rights organizations, has called for an end to human rights violations against Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent and Black people in the...

Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner HC on Haiti, with the participation of Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti.

Amnesty International along with other organizations urgently calls on President Luis Abinader and other relevant authorities, in the context of alarming racist practices and policies against Haitians in mobility, Dominicans of Haitian descent and activists. It strongly urges Dominican authorities...

The armed conflict between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is one of the longest running in modern history. It’s also open to various interpretations, stories and misinformation. Learning more about the roots causes of violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and...

Amnesty International welcomes the new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, which concludes there are “reasonable grounds to believe the threshold indicating Israel’s commission of genocide is met”.  As the UN Human...

Responding to the UN Security Council’s adoption of a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire “for the duration of the month of Ramadan leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire” as well as the immediate and unconditional release of hostages and greater humanitarian access to Gaza, Amnesty...

Millions of Yemenis continue to endure the long-lasting consequences of the devastating ongoing conflict amid the chronic failure of parties to the conflict to provide justice and redress for victims of crimes under international law and human rights violations, said Amnesty International on the...