News
Iran
Children
Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement in nationwide protests, said Amnesty International today. Marking...
March 16, 2023
Campaigns
Children
My name is Abril and I am a 17 year old child activist and human rights defender from Argentina. I am part of the Youth group of Amnesty International Argentina. I also volunteer as part of the Youth Agents of Change programme of Ashoka Conosur. I participate as a counsellor in the public ministry...
March 10, 2023
News
Senegal
Child Labour
The Senegalese authorities must meet their obligations and take action to end violations of the rights of children often referred to as talibé ( studying in Quranic schools commonly known as daaras), Amnesty International said today in a new briefing. The economic exploitation of talibé children...
December 12, 2022
News
Iran
Children
The Iranian authorities’ arbitrary arrest, intimidation and harassment of relatives of children, unlawfully gunned down or beaten to death by security forces in connection with protests, exposes their inconceivable cruelty and sinister attempt to cover up their crimes, said Amnesty International...
December 9, 2022
News
East Africa, the Horn and Great Lakes
Armed Conflict
In response to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNRC) decision to extend the mandate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) to continue to monitor and document crimes under international law and human rights violations in the country, Muleya...
October 7, 2022
News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Responding to today’s decision by the Israeli Prison Service to renew the solitary confinement of Ahmad Manasra, a Palestinian prisoner who has developed serious mental health problems since his arrest as a child seven years ago, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the...
August 3, 2022
News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Detention
Israeli authorities must immediately release Ahmad Manasra, a 20-year-old Palestinian man who has developed serious mental health problems since his arrest as a child seven years ago, Amnesty International said today. On Sunday 19 June a parole board will review Ahmad Manasra’s case. In 2015...
June 17, 2022
News
Algeria
Children
Algerian authorities must drop all charges against five activists facing bogus accusations after they exposed torture testimony, including attempted rape, of a child in police custody, said Amnesty International, on their first trial hearing today. Hirak movement activists Mohamed Tadjadit, Malik...
March 22, 2022
News
Middle East and North Africa
Children
Tens of thousands of children have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty and exposed to life-threatening and inhumane conditions in al-Hol, north-east Syria’s sprawling camp, their future surrounded by grim uncertainty as governments continue to show a shameful lack of willingness to...
November 30, 2021
News
Africa
Armed Conflict
Increasing numbers of children are being killed and targeted for recruitment by armed groups in conflicts raging at Niger’s borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The 57-page report, ‘I Have Nothing Left Except Myself’: The Worsening Impact...
September 12, 2021
Research
Europe and Central Asia
Children
Amnesty International is concerned that the Georgian authorities are failing in their duty to ensure effective protection the children placed in alternative care at the Ninotsminda boarding school, in the mountainous region of Samtskhe-Javakheti. Georgia’s authorities must ensure safety of all the...
June 25, 2021
News
Americas
Asylum
Regional trends regarding unaccompanied children migrating and seeking asylum in the USA and Mexico: According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF): Almost one-third (30%) of all migrants and asylum-seekers in Central America and Mexico are children. Half of those children (15% of all...
June 11, 2021