The Canadian federal government is planning to reform the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP). This document provides feedback to the federal government proposal on employer-provided accommodation for migrant workers. It also outlines some general concerns about the direction of the reforms,...

Saudi Arabia must free all individuals arbitrarily detained solely for their online expression ahead of hosting the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh, which will take place from 15 to 19 December 2024. It is counter to the IGF’s stated values for Saudi Arabia to host the IGF....

Kyrgyzstan authorities should retract their decision to liquidate the award-winning investigative outlet Kloop Media, eight international human rights groups said today. On August 29, 2024, Kloop Media Public Foundation reported that Kyrgyzstan’s Supreme Court upheld a February liquidation order...

Presidential elections will be held in Algeria on 7 September 2024 amidst severe restrictions on civic space and a continued crackdown on human rights including the rights to the freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and media freedom. In addition to these restrictions, Amnesty...

Public statement on the adoption of the Terms of Reference for drafting a UN Framework Tax Convention.

This is a joint statement by seven organizations gravely concerned by developments in Singapore since early August 2024. The authorities carried out two executions in violation of international safeguards on the death penalty; and limited the right to freedom of expression of the Transformative...

During the 2023–2024 academic year, authorities of the United Arab Emirates and the administration of New York University both acted to suppress and punish freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association at the university’s Abu Dhabi campus in the UAE. Measures taken by the university...

Joint Statement: EU Should Press India to End Rights Abuses The European Union should press the government of India to immediately act to end serious human rights violations in the country, five organizations said today, ahead of the EU-India human rights dialogue scheduled for August 20, 2024. The...

Amnesty International is gravely concerned about the escalating crackdown on human rights including repression of civic space, arbitrary arrests of opposition members, activists, human rights defenders (HRDs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) representatives, and intimidation, harassment and...

Three years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, the undersigned organizations, remain alarmed that the international response to worsening Taliban human rights violations, especially against women and girls, is increasingly ineffective and sometimes even harmful.

One year ago today, on 13 August 2023, Jordan enacted Law No. 17, introducing major amendments to its existing Cybercrimes Law of 2015. The new law expanded the scope of criminal offenses with new provisions which unduly restrict the right to freedom of expression and contravene Jordan’s...

New World Bank data in Lebanon reveal alarming figures of over 70 percent of the population experiencing multidimensional poverty. This highlights the failures of World Bank and EU-backed means-tested social security – which covers only about one-fifth of the population – to adequately address this...