Research
Africa
Disappearances
This research report is an outcome of the research conducted by Amnesty International into the actions of the Tanzanian authorities that resulted in multiple forced evictions of the Maasai Indigenous people of Loliondo. It focuses primarily on human rights violations during the forced evictions of...
June 5, 2023
Campaigns
Americas
Exploitation of Natural Resources
Bill 2903/2023 is set to be voted in coming days by the Senate. The bill – approved on May 30 by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies – seeks to make profound changes in the demarcation process of indigenous lands, and legitimize the “Temporal Landmark thesis”, whereby Indigenous peoples...
June 5, 2023
News
Asia and the Pacific
Discrimination
Ahead of Meta’s Annual Shareholder Meeting on Wednesday (31 May 2023), Pat de Brún, Head of Big Tech Accountability and Deputy Director of Amnesty Tech, said: “It is way beyond time that Meta fulfilled its responsibilities and provided an effective remedy to the Rohingya people of Myanmar. It is...
May 29, 2023
Research
Brazil
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
This submission sets out Amnesty International’s concerns and recommendations regarding the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the government of Brazil. It highlights Brazil’s failure to address extrajudicial executions and other violations committed in...
May 29, 2023
News
Africa
Business and Human Rights
Nigeria’s new government, which will be sworn in on 29 May, must ensure that Shell’s planned sale of its operations in the Niger Delta, does not lead to a further deterioration in human rights in a region blighted by decades of oil pollution
May 26, 2023
News
Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Peru’s Attorney General’s Office should investigate all those, up to the highest level, who ordered or tolerated the illegitimate use of lethal force by security forces that resulted in 49 deaths during the protests from December to February, Amnesty International said today in a new report. “Using...
May 25, 2023
Research
Egypt
Business and Human Rights
The climate crisis is a human rights crisis that is worsening day by day. Rapid and sustained action is needed if the increase in global average temperatures is to be kept within 1.5°C, a target likely to be breached by 2027 without course correction. At COP28, parties to the UNFCCC must take bold...
May 24, 2023
News
Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
An Amnesty International delegation led by Secretary General Agnès Callamard has arrived in Peru to present the complete findings of an investigation into the repression of widespread protests that began in the context of the political crisis last December. The organization has requested a meeting...
May 20, 2023
Campaigns
Philippines
Disappearances
Indigenous Peoples’ rights defenders Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, from the Cordillera region in northern Philippines, have been missing since 28 April 2023, in a suspected enforced disappearance by state security forces. Their families received credible information that two...
May 16, 2023
News
Americas
Asylum
A delegation of prominent national civil and immigrant rights leaders led by the Haitian Bridge Alliance visited locations in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas to bear witness to the end of Title 42 and the implementation of number of punitive policies along the...
May 12, 2023
News
Americas
Asylum
The mandatory use of the CBP One mobile application as the sole means of entering the United States to seek international protection is a clear violation of international human rights law, Amnesty International said today. In a new policy briefing, Amnesty International has raised serious human...
May 8, 2023
Campaigns
Americas
Business and Human Rights
On April 26, 2023, in the Ecuadorian National Assembly, the Minister of Energy and Mines of Ecuador accused the lawyer of the Union of People Affected by Texaco (UDAPT), Pablo Fajardo Mendoza, of being an “international criminal” for his defense of human rights, mainly of indigenous...
April 28, 2023