News
Armenia
Armed Conflict
The ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor is endangering the lives of thousands of people in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Amnesty International said today. The human rights organization called on Azerbaijan’s authorities and Russian peacekeepers to immediately unblock the route and...
February 9, 2023
News
Iran
International Justice
The Iranian authorities’ refusal to acknowledge let alone ensure accountability for the 1988 prison massacres – the worst incident of secret mass killings committed since the establishment of Islamic Republic of Iran – has perpetuated cycles of crimes under international law and...
February 6, 2023
News
War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
Israeli authorities must dismantle the system of apartheid which is causing so much suffering and bloodshed, Amnesty International said today. Since the organization launched a major campaign against apartheid one year ago, Israeli forces have killed almost 220 Palestinians*, including 35 in...
February 1, 2023
News
Africa
Armed Conflict
Responding to the news that Pope Francis will begin a 6-day visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan today, Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “During his trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan,...
January 31, 2023
News
Asia and the Pacific
Armed Conflict
Responding to measures announced by the British and Canadian governments to prevent aviation fuel reaching the Myanmar military, Amnesty International’s Business and Human Rights Researcher Montse Ferrer said: “Moves to stop the supply of aviation fuel to Myanmar’s military, announced today by...
January 31, 2023
News
Middle East and North Africa
Armed Conflict
Syrian government forces must lift a brutal blockade on civilians in predominantly Kurdish areas in the northern Aleppo region that is obstructing residents’ access to fuel and other essential supplies, Amnesty International said today. Since the government imposed the blockade in August 2022, tens...
January 24, 2023
Research
Argentina
Armed Conflict
This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January/February 2023. The countries covered are Czech Republic, Argentina, Gabon, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala, Benin, Republic of Korea, Switzerland,...
January 19, 2023
News
Mozambique
Armed Groups
In response to a video being circulated on social media purportedly showing soldiers throwing dead bodies onto a pile of burning household items in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “The viral...
January 11, 2023
News
Africa
Armed Conflict
According to witnesses interviewed by Amnesty International, auxiliary forces to the government of Burkina Faso killed dozens of civilians in Nouna, in Kossi province, on 30 December 2022 and more than 80 corpses were buried. The targeted and unjustified killings, of mainly ethnically Fulani...
January 10, 2023
News
Middle East and North Africa
UN
Ahead of a vote at the United Nations Security Council today on whether to extend a cross-border mechanism that has allowed the UN to deliver lifesaving aid across the Turkish-Syrian border into north-west Syria, Aya Majzoub, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and...
January 9, 2023
News
Africa
Armed Conflict
Amnesty International calls on the Cameroonian authorities to urgently provide the legal basis for the detention of Abdul Karim Ali, a peace activist, who has been held without charge since 11 August 2022 and kept in inhuman conditions or release him immediately. “In the absence of information from...
December 22, 2022
News
Europe and Central Asia
Armed Conflict
The Russian armed forces’ continued attacks against Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, are a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and are endangering the lives of civilians with freezing temperatures setting in, Amnesty International said today, as it calls for Russia to end...
December 21, 2022