Research
Arms Trade
The deployment of kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs) and other types of projectiles against protesters has led to thousands of injuries across the world – including permanent disabilities and scores of deaths. In many cases KIPs have been used as a tool of intimidation and punishment against...
March 14, 2023
Research
Business and Human Rights
As the Covid-19 pandemic enters its fourth year, this briefing identifies four key lessons from the failure of states and pharmaceutical companies to comply with their human rights obligations and responsibilities to ensure fair access to Covid-19 vaccines globally. It further makes concrete...
March 10, 2023
Research
Europe and Central Asia
Business and Human Rights
The catastrophic earthquakes that devastated southeastern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February and again on 20 February require a committed and sustained global humanitarian response. To date, the combined death toll is over 46,000 and climbing. Hundreds of thousands have been left homeless and...
February 23, 2023
Research
Climate change
The first Global Stocktake (GST) is happening in the context of intersecting crises that are harming human rights across the globe. Climate impacts are occurring at an unprecedented scale and scientific reports confirm that we are far off track to keep global warming below 1.5°C, a limit that is...
February 21, 2023
Research
Climate change
This brief was submitted to the UNFCCC on 15 February 2023 by Amnesty International and the Center for International Environmental Law, responding to the call to submit views on topics for and the structure of the 2nd Glasgow Dialogue and the workshops referred to in paragraph 7(a) of...
February 21, 2023
Research
South Asia
Discrimination
This factsheet by Amnesty International gives a brief introduction to states, civil society organizations, community groups, activists, and concerned individuals on how to formulate more useful recommendations to address descent and caste-based discrimination when engaging with the Universal...
January 20, 2023
Research
Libya
Armed Conflict
The climate of impunity in Libya has fuelled horrific crimes by the Tariq Ben Zeyad armed group against thousands of Libyans and migrants since 2016 in areas under the control of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces. Libyan authorities, those in de facto control of territory and the international community...
December 19, 2022
Research
Ethiopia
Children
Since 2017, as part of a campaign to crackdown on undocumented migrants, Saudi authorities have arbitrarily arrested hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian migrants crossing the border from Yemen or residing in Saudi Arabia, held them in indefinite detention in inhuman and cruel conditions, subjected...
December 16, 2022
News
Africa
Armed Conflict
Ahead of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) meeting on South Sudan on 30 November, Amnesty International and the South Sudanese Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) have called on the African Union to speed up the formation of the Hybrid Court for South Sudan (HCSS). The...
November 23, 2022
Research
Africa
Armed Groups
It is seven years since the first peace deal was signed in South Sudan and with it a commitment made to set up a African Union-backed up Hybrid Court for South Sudan (HCSS) to investigate and prosecute war crimes and other human rights violations committed in the conflict since 2013. But the...
November 23, 2022
Research
Americas
COVID-19
By any international standards, the COVID-19 pandemic was a particular disaster for Brazil compared to most countries in the world. After Peru, the country amassed the 2nd position in the Americas and the nineteenth globally with the largest number of deaths per million inhabitants.
November 21, 2022
Research
Climate change
The Global Biodiversity Framework, to be negotiated at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), contains a proposal to commit states to declaring 30% of the Earth’s land and sea mass as protected areas for conservation purposes, by 2030. This is the...
November 4, 2022