The Tajikistani authorities are perpetuating systemic discrimination and severe human rights violations against the Pamiri minority, according to new research by Amnesty International. The Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) in East Tajikistan is home to several ethnic groups forming the...

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Since 2009, private businesses have been complicit in forced evictions of Maasai Indigenous communities from their ancestral lands in Loliondo by Tanzanian authorities, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The new report, ‘Business as usual in bloodied land? The role of businesses in...

This report calls on businesses operating in Loliondo to respect the rights of the Maasai Indigenous People, carry out human rights due diligence, and provide remedy where their business operations are identified to be causing or contributing to adverse impacts on the Maasai People’s rights....

Forest Peoples Programmes, Rainforest Foundation UK, Amnesty International and Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy Programme enthusiastically welcome an historic decision from the African Commission of Human and Peoples Rights last week in favour of the Batwa people of the Democratic Republic of...

Thai authorities must not forcibly return a Montagnard and Ede Indigenous human rights activist to Viet Nam where he would be at severe risk of torture, Amnesty International said ahead of his extradition hearing next week. Y Quynh Bdap, a UN-recognized refugee who has been in Thailand since 2018,...

This joint open letter to the Board of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage ahead of its second meeting in July 2024, signed by over 350 civil society organizations including Amnesty International, expresses the strong expectation and demand to have a dedicated community access window...

This is Amnesty International’s Oral Statement on the consideration of Malaysia’s UPR report at the UN Human Rights Council’s 56th Session from 18 June – 12 July.

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been imprisoned in the USA for nearly 50 years, some of which was spent in solitary confinement, serving two life sentences for murder despite serious and ongoing concerns over the fairness of his trial. He has always maintained his innocence. Now 79...

With this human rights charter, Amnesty International urges the newly formed National Democratic Alliance (NDA) -led Indian government to ensure that the protection and promotion of human rights is kept at the centre of all its policies and decisions for the next five years.