Legislation limiting the rights to freedom of expression and privacy remained pending. Security forces detained individuals for “spreading misinformation” and criticizing the government during the COVID-19 pandemic. Protesters were detained and security forces continued to use excessive force to...

PRESS RELEASE Nepal must urgently remove the restrictive statute of limitations on cases of rape and other sexual violence through amendment as it continues to be a barrier for survivors in access to justice, said Amnesty International today while expressing solidarity with the ongoing protests...

Amnesty International is calling on the Qatari authorities to ensure that a draft domestic workers law currently under consideration provides robust legal protections from abuse and enforceable mechanisms for workers to hold abusive employers to account

We look back at how your campaigning for My Body My Rights has changed women’s lives around the world. Thousands of you joined us in standing up for sexual and reproductive rights through Amnesty’s My Body My Rights campaign. Launched in 2014, the campaign is founded on the principle that we all –...

This year’s International Women’s Day celebrations on 8 March bookend a milestone in women’s rights. Soon after, world leaders will descend on the UN in New York to take stock of how much they have achieved in the 20 years since a historic meeting in Beijing, where they promised to protect and...

Thanks to your feedback, Amnesty’s global magazine has a brand new look and a wider mix of articles – from our new campaign for Syrian refugees and where Amnesty gets it money from, to facts and figures about the conflicts in Gaza and the Central African Republic. You’ll find updates about...

This briefing is submitted to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by Amnesty International and the National Alliance for Pelvic Organ Prolapse Management, an alliance of 17 Nepali NGOs working on sexual and reproductive rights. The focus of this submission is on the...

In this statement, Amnesty international welcomes the consensus that effective strategies to eradicate preventable Maternal Mortality and Morbidity must empower women and girls to make decisions about their health. Gender discrimination prevents women and girls from controlling their bodies, lives...

1) The Agenda 2) Up front: Journalism is not a crime 3) We can Stop Torture 4) Fighting torture since 1961 5) Stop Torture: Mexico: Standing up to Claudia’s torturers, together 6) Stop Torture: Uzbekistan: The long way home 7) Stop Torture: Morocco/Western Sahara: Picturing the pain 8) Stop...

As part of Amnesty’s My Body My Rights campaign, we are working with the Nepali women’s rights movement to call on the government to recognize that uterine prolapse is both the result of gender discrimination and a failure to uphold the human rights of women and girls in Nepal. Here, two Nepali...

All over the world, people are coerced, criminalized and discriminated against, simply for making choices about their bodies and their lives. In the face of these continuing violations, Amnesty International launches My body My rights, a new global campaign to defend sexual and reproductive rights...

1) The Agenda 2) Up front: Protecting people in a human rights crisis 3) My Body My Rights My Future 4) Who controls your body? 5) Nepal: Removing an unnecessary burden 6) Argentina: Who decides? 7) Human Rights Education: Mongolia: ‘It showed me how to be loud’ 8) Fair trials: Kosovo: The power of...

This briefing highlights Amnesty International’s concerns around violations of the rights to freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, particularly sexual and gender-based violence; equality of men and women before the law and equal protection of the law in relation to the...