Amnesty International condemns the reports of mass killings that occurred between 6 and 7 December in the Wharf Jérémie neighborhood in Cité Soleil; the gang attack resulted in the deaths of 180 people, reported the Haitian prime minister’s office. ‘’We are urging the Haitian authorities and the international community to redouble their efforts to protect the population in…
It has been two years since more than 1,400 people were injured in different regions of Peru by bullets, pellets, and tear gas fired by the police and the army during protests in different regions of the country between December 2022 and March 2023. This is the story of four of the survivors of these…
Bogotá, 3 December 2024. Amnesty International is releasing its report Transforming pain into rights: Risks, threats and attack on women searchers in Colombia in Bogotá’s Teatro Colón. The report documents the reality experienced by the women who dedicate their lives to searching for the victims of enforced disappearance in Colombia, and the need for society…
Amnesty International published new research today exposing the arbitrary detention, torture, ill treatment, and gross violations of the right to a fair trial of six children in Venezuela committed between 29 and 31 July, during the post-electoral crackdown on dissent by Nicolas Maduro’s government. Four months on, at least 198 children remain subjected to either…
Two family members of the victims of the lethal state repression of 2022-2023 protests in Peru will travel to Europe to meet with international leaders to raise their concerns about the lack of justice for one of the gravest episodes of human rights violations in Peru’s recent history. Yovanna Mendoza and Mario Ilaquita, whose family…
For the organization, the trial of the perpetrators is an important step, although there is a long way to full justice More than six years after the murder of councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, the former military police officers and confessed murderers, Ronnie Lessa and Élcio Queiroz, will be tried by a…
On the eve of President Daniel Noboa’s first year in office, the evidence suggests that human rights have suffered under the current administration, Amnesty International said today in a briefing detailing its concerns, ahead of the UN Human Rights Committee’s review of Ecuador, which begins today in Geneva. In the face of rising violence, the…
In a context of systematic human rights violations, a completely restricted civic space and the criminalization of any form of dissent, Amnesty International today declared political dissident Félix Navarro, independent journalist and Dama de Blanco Sayli Navarro, 11J protester Roberto Pérez Fonseca and activist Luis Robles as prisoners of conscience. “These designations are a recognition…
19 international civil society organisations demand due process at the review of journalist Jose Rubén Zamora’s detention due on Friday 18 October 2024. A Guatemala City court will consider the request for revision of pre-trial detention order issued against journalist Zamora. He has been unjustly imprisoned since 29 July 2022. We, the undersigned organisations, express…
Ahead of the COP16 Biodiversity summit, which runs from 21 October to 1 November in Cali, Colombia, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “At the last meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal in 2022, states agreed the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, a set of ambitious targets to strengthen the protection and…
Today, the UN Human Rights Council took a decisive step to address the spiraling human rights crisis in Venezuela. The global human rights body adopted a resolution renewing, for a period of two years, the mandate of the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela (FFM), in addition to the mandate of the Office of the High…
Following the recent interactive dialogue with the UN expert on Haiti, where Amnesty International expressed its deep concern over gang-related violence, particularly against children, perpetrated in total impunity, Ana Piquer, Americas director at Amnesty International, stated: “We have documented heartbreaking stories of children forced to work for gangs: from running deliveries to gathering information and…