Research
Asia and the Pacific
Detention
This submission has been prepared in advance of the consideration by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its 73rd session of the second periodic report on Cambodia’s implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The submission provides...
January 16, 2023
Campaigns
Americas
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the popular resistance of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) against an iron ore mine, were found death in the community of Guapinol on 7 January 2023. They were intercepted by armed assailants, shot and killed on the...
January 13, 2023
News
Kuwait
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Responding to the news that Mona Kareem, an academic from Kuwait’s stateless Bidun community who has criticized the government’s treatment of the Bidun, was denied entry to Kuwait on the night of 3-4 January when she tried to visit her family there, Amna Guellali, Amnesty International’s Deputy...
January 5, 2023
News
Business and Human Rights
Reacting to Indigenous peoples calling on states to ensure that a deal to declare 30% of the world protected by 2030 at the COP15 talks in Montreal respects their rights, Chris Chapman, Amnesty International’s Adviser on Indigenous Rights, said: “Any 30 x 30 deal being negotiated in the final days...
December 15, 2022
Research
Climate change
Survival International, Amnesty International, Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) call on States to urgently reconsider their pledge to declare 30% of the planet as ‘Protected Areas’, set to be adopted at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP) of the...
December 2, 2022
Research
Death in Custody
On 19 November 2022, Malaysia will hold its 15th general elections. Amnesty International is publishing a human rights agenda for election candidates to highlight which issues the organization considers should be top of government leaders’ priorities should they be elected. Amnesty International...
November 16, 2022
News
Americas
Business and Human Rights
In Mexico, the story of renewable energy goes hand in hand with colonial practices of dispossession and violation of the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples. In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow stretch of Mexican territory that separates the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean, the...
November 12, 2022
News
Americas
Climate change
On the eve of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), Amnesty International released a report on the impact of climate change on the human rights of eight communities around the world. One of these eight case studies was conducted with the...
November 11, 2022
Research
Climate change
The Global Biodiversity Framework, to be negotiated at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), contains a proposal to commit states to declaring 30% of the Earth’s land and sea mass as protected areas for conservation purposes, by 2030. This is the...
November 4, 2022
News
Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Brazil’s presidential election ended on the night of Sunday, 30 October. According to the official information published by the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), the candidate Luiz Inácio da Silva was elected with 50.90% of the votes, against 49.10% for re-election of the candidate Jair Messias...
October 31, 2022
Research
Brazil
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
This submission focusses on Brazil’s failure to address racial and structural discrimination, the situation of economic and social rights of the Afro-Descendant population, and the restrictive environment for Afro-Brazilians to exercise their civil and political rights, as well as through political...
October 17, 2022
Research
Egypt
Climate change
This briefing updates an early briefing from May 2022. It highlights the bold measures states must take on emission reductions, climate finance, loss and damage, Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), the global stocktake, guarantees for meaningful public participation and responding to the human...
October 17, 2022