The US$161.1 billion annual profit posted today by the Saudi Arabian state-backed oil company Saudi Aramco, the most ever disclosed by a company in a single year, should be used to fund a human rights-based transition to renewable energy, Amnesty International said. Agnès Callamard, Amnesty...

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...

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More than three dozen Nepali civil society organizations have today published an open letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino calling on him to “stop looking the other way” while migrant workers are denied compensation after having suffered abuses in Qatar. The organizations have also displayed...

Responding to the passing of a new EU law which requires companies selling batteries for electric cars and other electronic devices in the EU to comply with new rules designed to prevent human rights abuses and environmental harm in their supply chains, Mark Dummett, Head of Business and Human...

The exclusion of banks and financial institutions, as well as waivers for companies that sell high-risk security equipment and surveillance technologies, undermine a proposed new European Union law governing human rights and businesses, Amnesty International said. The legislation, the EU Corporate...

A process to negotiate a new international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response is underway. This briefing outlines Amnesty International’s human rights concerns regarding pandemic prevention, preparedness and response, based largely on our documentation and campaigning...

This paper sets out the key content and operational features of a prospective international instrument, a Torture-Free Trade Treaty, that is currently being discussed at the UN. Such an instrument would be aimed at prohibiting the manufacture and trade in inherently abusive law enforcement...

Joint statement from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Knowledge Ecology International, and the People’s Vaccine Alliance on the UN Human Rights Council’s adoption by consensus of a resolution on Access to medicines, vaccines and other health products in the context of the right of...

This joint letter, signed by 42 international and European civil society organizations, expresses concerns over the leaked draft text of a proposed compromise for a temporary waiver of the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

In this joint letter, civil society organizations express concerns at process and participation at the WTO 12th Ministerial Conference, 30 November – 3 December 2021 and lable “Walker Process” a distraction from the urgent need to agree a waiver of intellectual property rights for...

This oral statement to the 47th session of the UN Human Rights Council reflects on the OHCHR report on state response to pandemics. It highlights the urgent need for a waiver of certain intellectual property rights for Covid-19 products, and support for the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access Pool. It...