President Luis Abinader announced on 2 October 2024 a plan to deport up to 10,000 of people from Haiti per week, starting on 4 October 2024. This risks mass human rights violations in the Dominican Republic. This increase in deportations could intensify the existing unlawful practices of collective...

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 and other human rights organisations welcome the draft resolution entitled “Protecting the human rights and improving the lives of sex workers and victims of sexual exploitation” (Doc. 16044), adopted by the Equality and Non Discrimination Committee of the Parliamentary...

What is a crime against humanity?  Crimes against humanity refer to certain crimes committed as part of widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population. They shock the conscience of humanity itself. The first prosecution using the term occurred when Nazi leaders were tried at...

Amnesty International submits this report ahead of the review of Thailand by the UN Committee against Torture in October 2024. It sets out Amnesty International’s key concerns on various issues related to torture and other cruel, degrading and inhuman treatments in Thailand.

Amnesty International expresses concern over the human rights situation, particularly regarding the racist and violent treatment faced by Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the implementation of migration policies that result in the racialized exclusion of these individuals by the...

Humanitarian worker and civil society activist Pakhshan Azizi, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish ethnic minority, is at risk of execution following a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. In July 2024, she was sentenced to death solely in relation to her peaceful humanitarian and...

Fernanda Doz Costa, Director of Gender, Racial Justice, Refugees and Migrants Rights Program at Amnesty International. Hate emails, stigmatization, death threats, stalking, burglaries, attacks, harassment at work and at home. Killings. This is what life is like for many who provide life-saving...

Responding to the announcement by Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands during the UN General Assembly yesterday that they will initiate legal proceedings that could ultimately lead to action at the International Court of Justice against Afghanistan for numerous violations of the UN...

Ninety Afghan, regional and international non-governmental organizations have recently renewed their appeal to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to establish an independent investigative mechanism, complementary to the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in...

Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the UN Human Rights Council during the General Debate on Item 3 (Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development). The statement focuses on the rights of...

Amnesty International submits this information to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of the adoption of the list of issues prior to reporting for Poland. It focuses on the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, women’s rights, equality and non-discrimination, access...