On 30 September 2024, Palestinian surgeon Khaled Al Serr was released from Israeli detention after spending more than six months without charges or trial, half of which was incommunicado detention, under the abusive Unlawful Combatants Law. Dr. Khaled Al Serr was arbitrarily detained by the Israeli...

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.

We are sending this open letter to President Javier Milei to make him aware of Amnesty International’s serious concerns about the human rights situation in Argentina under your government. We recognise that the economic and social crisis that the country has been going through for years has...

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...

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...

On 25 March 2024, the Israeli military detained Palestinian surgeon Khaled Al Serr, along with other medical staff, from Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the occupied Gaza Strip. Until 4 July 2024 his fate and whereabouts remained unknown. He is held in Ofer military prison in the occupied West...

The United States (US) should urgently provide humanitarian aid to at least 8,000 displaced Syrians stranded in the besieged, isolated Rukban camp under US de facto control on Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq without access to sufficient food, clean water or healthcare, Amnesty International...

This submission has been prepared in advance of the review of Iceland’s sixth periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Covenant) by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) in September 2024.

Amnesty International is submitting the following information to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereinafter “the Committee”) ahead of the third periodic report of the government of the Republic of Poland (hereinafter “Poland”) at the Committee’s 76th session in September...

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard will be in New York for the opening of the high-level General Debate of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and participating in the Summit of The Future. She will be available for interviews in New York City from 20 to 24...

Dr Christophe Sahabo, a Burundian doctor, was arrested on 1 April 2022 over a dispute regarding the management of Kira hospital and has remained in detention ever since. On 10 September, he vomited and collapsed during a trial hearing. He was admitted to hospital, but transferred back to Ruyigi...

Governments use tax to ensure sustainable funding for social programmes, and for public investments to promote equitable growth and development. Taxation is thus an essential element of a government’s ability to implement its policies and programmes. Tax matters for human rights because taxes are...