Amnesty International submits this briefing in advance of the consideration by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (the Committee) of Germany’s combined 23rd to 26th periodic reports under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination...

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On the occasion of the forthcoming General Assembly of the French Basketball Federation on 14 October 2023, Amnesty International has called on the French Basketball Federation and the French Ministry of Sport, Olympic and Paralympic Games to ensure that rules regarding the wearing of sports head...

On 27 August 2023, in a prime-time television interview, Gabriel Attal, France’s Minister of Education, announced that he had decided that “the abaya could no longer be worn at school”. On 28 August 2023, just a few days before children in France were to re-start school after the summer holidays,...

The European Union (EU) must ban dangerous, AI-powered technologies in the AI Act, Amnesty International said today, as the bloc aims to finalize the world’s first comprehensive AI rulebook this fall.   Numerous states across the globe have deployed unregulated AI systems to assess welfare claims,...

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On 8 September, Amnesty International and five others organisations wrote to the Asia Pacific Forum raising concerns about the proposed Asia-Pacific Forum Conference of national human rights institutions of 26 countries scheduled to be hosted by the National Human Rights Commission of India (NHRCI)...

Amnesty International’s submission to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of the review of the fourth periodic report of Iran at its 139th session, setting out some key concerns and recommendations related to the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the...

The member states and other countries invited to attend the G20 summit hosted this year by India must speak out about the deteriorating human rights situation in the country characterized by the persecution of minorities, a shrinking space for dissent and weakening of autonomous institutions and...

Responding to the attack and arson of at least five Churches and many Christian homes in Jaranwala in Pakistan, Rehab Mahamoor, interim regional researcher for South Asia at Amnesty International said: “The Pakistani authorities must urgently ensure the protection of the minority Christian...

Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, we strongly condemn ongoing and escalating gross human rights violations by the Taliban especially against women and girls and the lack of an effective response from the international community, 10 international human rights...