The deepening human rights crisis in Afghanistan requires international action to address the cycle of impunity in the country and demonstrates the urgent need for the United Nations (UN) to establish an independent international accountability mechanism for Afghanistan, with the mandate to...

Entrenched impunity for deaths in custody and other serious human rights abuses by armed groups operating under the command of the self-proclaimed Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) has enabled the Internal Security Agency (ISA) to intensify its crackdown on critics and political opponents in recent...

A new investigation by Amnesty International reveals Israeli forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimise harm to civilians sheltering at camps for internally displaced people while carrying out two attacks targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders and fighters in the...

Increasing deadly attacks against Rohingya people in Myanmar’s Rakhine State bear a terrifying resemblance to the atrocities of August 2017, Amnesty International said ahead of the seventh anniversary of the crisis. “As the seven-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis nears, the horrific situation...

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.

by Dr. Japhet Biegon The ongoing battle between the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudan Armed Forces and their allies for the city of El Fasher marks a significant escalation in Sudan’s 14-month conflict.  Once a haven for hundreds of thousands of people fleeing other parts of Darfur, El Fasher is...

Hamas and other armed groups must immediately and unconditionally release all civilian hostages who have been held in captivity in the occupied Gaza Strip since 7 October, Amnesty International reiterated today. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets across Israel...

In March 2023, the Human Rights Council regrettably decided to end the mandate of the Independent Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on Libya and instead adopt a capacity-building resolution with no investigative and monitoring component. Since then, state security forces, militias, and armed groups have...

Reacting to the decision of the Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to convict Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz for some of the war crimes and crimes against humanity he was accused of having committed in Timbuktu, Mali, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International Regional Director for West...

Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria faced further suffering, including sometimes in unlawful military detention, and are now receiving inadequate support as they attempt to rebuild their lives, Amnesty International said in a new report. ‘Help us build our...

After surviving years of abuse by Boko Haram and by Nigerian forces, reintegration support and justice remain elusive for girls associated, or perceived to be associated, with Boko Haram. Based primarily on 126 interviews, of which 76 were with girls and young women who were girls when they...

The imminent deployment of a non-UN Multinational Security Support Mission (MSS) to be led by Kenya, with the mandate “to support the efforts of the Haitian National Police to re-establish security in Haiti and build security conditions conducive to holding free and fair elections” raises concerns...