By Sikula Oniala  There were scenes of jubilation and euphoria when South Sudan gained independence 13 years ago today. But hope and optimism quickly vanished as conflict, corruption and human rights violations have become entrenched in the world’s newest country.  In a pattern that has become...

Since September 2023, Egypt’s Border Guard Forces and police have carried out mass arbitrary arrests of Sudanese people who fled the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan for irregularly entering or staying in Egypt. The Egyptian authorities held women, men and children in cruel and inhuman conditions,...

Despite repeated calls on Israel from heads of state, UN officials and humanitarian NGOs to refrain from expanding its ground offensive to Rafah, Israeli troops entered the governorate on May 7. Over 1.5 million people, including 600,000 children, are at serious risk; more than 450,000 Palestinians...

Since at least 24 April, prisons authorities halted the provision of food and medication for detainees in five of the major prisons in Ecuador. On 2 May, a judge ordered the Ministry of Economy and Finance to transfer to the National Service for Integral Attention of People Deprived of Liberty the...

Governments must ensure automated social protection systems are fit for purpose and do not prevent people eligible for welfare from receiving it, Amnesty International said today as it published a technical explainer on the underlying technology behind Samagra Vedika, an algorithmic system that has...

Detainees in at least five of the major prisons in Ecuador are at imminent risk of facing hunger and health issues, as prison authorities have halted the provision of food and medication since 24 April. Amnesty International calls on the National Service for Integral Attention of People Deprived of...

Violence, death and suffering in Sudan For the people of Sudan, nowhere is safe. The internal conflict has killed over 14,000 people and displaced over 10 million people. People in Sudan are facing rampant violations of human rights and humanitarian law resulting in mass civilian casualties,...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for input to inform an expert workshop and the High Commissioner’s comprehensive study on the human rights dimension of care and support to be presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-eight session in 2025. This submission includes links to some...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, and on the Right to Non-discrimination in this Context, to inform his report to the General Assembly in October 2024, and for developing...

On 26 January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Palestinian civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip face a real and imminent risk of genocide. Pending its final ruling on the allegations of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel under the Genocide Convention, the Court...

In response to the United Nations Security Council adoption of a compromise resolution calling for “urgent steps to immediately allow safe andunhindered and expanded humanitarian access” to Gaza and creating “the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities”, Amnesty International’s...

This report analyses the forced evictions of several thousand people in Benin since 2021 due to the needs of four tourism and coastal development projects. It explains the conditions under which these evictions have been carried out with regard to Beninese law and international human rights law,...