The government response to COVID-19 raised human rights concerns, including in relation to the right to health, the enactment of emergency legislation without parliamentary oversight, and police use of spit hoods. Increased numbers of people accessed abortion services under the 2018 law, but gaps...

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...

SEX WORKERS IN IRELAND DEMAND THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS Women’s rights and gender equality issues have exploded into public consciousness in recent years, with the #MeToo movement galvanizing millions of people worldwide to demand change. But one demographic facing such human rights violations every day...

Amnesty International submits this briefing to the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture (the Committee) ahead of its examination, in July 2017, of Ireland’s second periodic report on the implementation of the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or...

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

This statement calls for governments around the world to decriminalise abortion in order to uphold the rights to life, health, and bodily autonomy of women and girls.

In this submission Amnesty International urges the Committee of Ministers to take into account the fact that Ireland, for over 20 years, has refused to enact legislation and regulations that would effectively guarantee women and girls access to those abortion services which are in fact legal. This...

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...

Amnesty International submits this briefing in advance of the adoption of the list of issues on Ireland at the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’ Pre-sessional Working Group, during its 53rd session in December 2014. The submission includes information regarding the harmful impact...

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...

In this briefing Amnesty International highlights a number of human rights concerns in Ireland. These include: the criminalization of abortion in all cases except where there is a real and substantial risk to the life of the pregnant woman or girl; the failure to provide truth, justice and...

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...

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...