Meta must reform its business practices to ensure Facebook’s algorithms do not amplify hatred and fuel ethnic conflict, Amnesty International said today in the wake of a landmark legal action against Meta submitted in Kenya’s High Court. The legal action claims that Meta promoted speech that...

Amnesty International provided a submission to the Supreme Court in South Korea on international legal standards with regard to the right of legal gender recognition. The right to legal gender recognition is derived from a number of fundamental rights protected in both domestic and international...

On 9 May 2022, Amnesty International and the Southern Africa Litigation Centre (SALC) applied to intervene as amici curiae (“friends of the court”) in a class action lawsuit launched by a group of Zambian children and women against the mining giant Anglo American in South Africa. The...

This submission is presented before the European Court of Human Rights by a group of human rights organizations and academics who have intervened in the first climate change case at the Court. The submission shows that justice must not stop at borders and emphasises the need for climate change to...

Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists submitted their fourth intervention to the European Court of Human Rights on the issue of the independence of the judiciary in Poland. The case of Tuleya v Poland concerns the disciplinary proceedings against judges. AI and ICJ argue...

Amnesty International and International Commission of Jurists submitted their third intervention to the European Court of Human Rights as part of series of cases that raise the issue of the independence of the judiciary in Poland. The case of Żurek v Poland concerns the premature termination of a...

Amnesty International (AI) and the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) intervened at the European Court of Human Rights in the case Judges Mariusz Broda and Alina Bojara. They were vice-presidents of the Regional Court in Kielce, Poland, where they were serving a six-year term starting in...

Smin Tit, Hoy Mai and Others v Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. This brief aims to assist the South Bangkok Civil Court by setting out relevant international legal principles and standards regarding States’ obligations in relation to the right to remedy and access to justice, including in the context of...

Amnesty International and the International Commission of Jurists intervened at the European Court of Human Rights in the case Judge Jan Grzęda. He was a member of the council of judiciary in Poland whose mandate was terminated early by legislative changes that undermined the independence of the...

These submissions are presented on behalf of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. The submissions address: (A) the existence of Italy’s jurisdiction under Article 1 European Convention on Human Rights (“ECHR”), as a result of its decisive influence over Libya’s migration policy and...

On 11 November 2019, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch submitted a joint third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights in a case involving Libya’s abuses against migrants during operations at sea and upon return to the country in November 2017. Paste this URL into the...

Amnesty International submits to the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice this brief to present the different standards of international human rights law to which States are subject regulating, in law, the use of force and firearms by law enforcement officials.