Amnesty International and the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) urgently appeal to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to grant access to independent international experts such as the UN Special Rapporteurs, international NGOs and EU Delegation and EU missions in Abu Dhabi to visit Ahmed Mansoor in...

Egypt’s National Human Rights Strategy (NHRS) was launched one year ago by the Egyptian authorities to conceal their abysmal human rights record and deflect criticism. Amnesty International’s analysis reveals that the NHRS paints a deeply misleading picture of the human rights situation. The...

Participants will learn about freedom of expression through practical exercises that allow them to understand the indignation of not being able to make their voices heard. These activities relate to the real-life story of Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a Cuban artist and prisoner of conscience. As...

Amnesty International has collected the stories of people in Russia who are in detention today because of their public criticism of the war in Ukraine. We call on the Russian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release them, and to repeal new legislation and all other legislation...

We, the undersigned NGOs, call on the international community to press Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release women’s rights activist and academic Salma al-Shehab, who was recently sentenced to 34 years in prison based on tweets in support of women’s rights and for the...

On 29 July a court extended the pretrial detention of artist Aleksandra Skochilenko until 1 September, following a letter from the Centre for Combating Extremism claiming that Aleksandra Skochilenko is part of a “radical protest feminist group” without providing any evidence. She maintains she had...

On 15 July, a court in Krasnodar (southern Russia) sentenced Andrei Pivovarov to four years in prison for “carrying out activities of an undesirable organization”, under a law that contravenes Russia’s international human rights obligations. Andrei Pivovarov is a political activist, human rights...

On 4 July 2022, a Misdemeanours Emergency State Security Court (ESSC) convicted Egyptian researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy of spreading “false news” and sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment. His conviction is based solely on social media posts criticizing human rights violations in Egypt and the...

Indigenous Peoples face racism and discrimination in most countries. We have been stripped of our lands and evicted from them. The powerful implement policies that leave us impoverished and obstruct all kinds of opportunities for human, social and professional development. Very few governments...

Ahead of the 18-19 July 2022 Petersberg Climate Dialogue, which you will co-chair with Egyptian President Abdelfattah al-Sisi, we 21 national, regional and international civil society organisations are writing to urge you to press President al-Sisi, publicly and privately, to take prompt and...

نكتب لعنايتكم، نحن 21 منظمة حقوقية وطنية وإقليمية ودولية، قبل حوار بيترسبرغ للمناخ في 18-19 يوليو/تموز 2022، والذي سترأسونه بالشراكة مع الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي، لحثكم على الضغط على الرئيس المصري، علنًا وبشكل خاص، على اتخاذ تدابير فورية وفعالة لإعادة فتح المجال العام في مصر، قبل انعقاد...

Мы обращаемся с призывом к вашему правительству публично поддержать и обеспечить выдвижение инициативы Европейского союза по обсуждению учреждения мандата Специального докладчика ООН по вопросу о положении с правами человека в Российской Федерации на предстоящей 51-й сессии Совета ООН по правам...