With this year’s World Habitat Day theme focusing on youth and urban futures, it is impossible to ignore one key factor – the climate crisis – and what it means for fulfilling the right to housing in both rural and urban contexts, including for young people, today and in the future.

Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (44th Ordinary Session). The statement focused on girls and young women in north-east Nigeria who suffered horrific abuse in Boko Haram captivity, with many survivors...

Amnesty International submits this information to the UN Human Rights Committee (the Committee) in advance of its consideration of the second periodic report of Pakistan at the 142nd session of the Committee scheduled to be held between 14 October to 8 November 2024. This submission emphasizes...

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...

Amnesty International welcomes the adoption of the Declaration on the Protection of Persons with Albinism by the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) on 17 August 2024 at its summit in Harare, Zimbabwe. We urge SADC member states to follow through and effectively implement the commitments...

Protect the future of human rights Together, we can fight for human rights everywhere, for generations to come. Protect the future of human rights Together, we can fight for human rights everywhere, for generations to come. For more information about the 2048 commission, contact the Secretary...

Responding to reports that Vladimir Putin plans to visit Mongolia on 3 September, Altantuya Batdorj, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mongolia, said: “If he travels, Mongolia’s international legal obligations are clear as a member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC). They...

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.

Amnesty International reveals how the Ecuadorian state is failing in its duty to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by allowing lighter operations in the Amazon. Even though a 2021 court ruling, promoted by nine girls and young climate activists from communities of Sucumbíos and Orellana, with...

Thousands of Yezidi survivors of atrocities by the Islamic State armed group (IS) remain missing, including likely hundreds indefinitely detained in north-east Syria, Amnesty International said ahead of the 10-year anniversary of IS’s attack on the Yezidi community in Iraq. Beginning in August...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iraq in January-February 2025 In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Iraq in its previous review, including in relation to women’s rights, the rights of internally displaced persons...

January Norway: Over the last few years, Norway has endured criticism from international human rights bodies for its treatment of people in prison with mental health problems. Isolation is widely used, and suicide rates are high. Last year, Amnesty Norway campaigned for prisoners’ rights, which led...