Research
South Africa
Business and Human Rights
This oral statement was delivered to the United Nations Human Rights Council on 28 March to highlight key human rights developments and concerns in South Africa from our submissions.
March 28, 2023
News
Armenia
Armed Conflict
The ongoing blockade of the Lachin corridor is endangering the lives of thousands of people in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Amnesty International said today. The human rights organization called on Azerbaijan’s authorities and Russian peacekeepers to immediately unblock the route and...
February 9, 2023
News
Europe and Central Asia
Armed Conflict
The Russian armed forces’ continued attacks against Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, are a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and are endangering the lives of civilians with freezing temperatures setting in, Amnesty International said today, as it calls for Russia to end...
December 21, 2022
News
Senegal
Child Labour
The Senegalese authorities must meet their obligations and take action to end violations of the rights of children often referred to as talibé ( studying in Quranic schools commonly known as daaras), Amnesty International said today in a new briefing. The economic exploitation of talibé children...
December 12, 2022
News
Europe and Central Asia
Discrimination
Serbia’s Social Card law is an intrusive surveillance system that could harm the most marginalized members of society, including Roma communities, Amnesty International said today, as it submits a legal opinion as part of a review of the constitutionality of the law. The law, which entered...
November 28, 2022
News
Africa
Armed Conflict
Six months after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office, his government has yet to make good on its promises to guarantee justice and security for the people of Somalia. Amnesty International is today presenting the Somali government with a 10-point plan, outlining the steps it must take to...
November 15, 2022
Research
Middle East and North Africa
Detention
In this submission, Amnesty International lays out human rights violations and concerns that it has documented in the United Arab Emirates since the conclusion of its last Universal Periodic Review, Amnesty International also raises concern about, in particular, the ongoing imprisonment and...
October 25, 2022
Research
Afghanistan
Disappearances
Since the return of the Taliban to Kabul in August 2021, the Taliban’s systematic attacks on the rights of women and girls and the use of violence, including torture and other ill-treatment, and enforced disappearances, have created a culture of fear, and threatens to completely erase women and...
October 5, 2022
Research
Afghanistan
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
The situation in Afghanistan is extremely worrying as the country faces an increasingly intertwined spate of crimes under international law, gross human rights violations and a deteriorating humanitarian crisis. In this letter, Amnesty International calls on Permanent representatives to support a...
September 9, 2022
Research
Kuwait
Children
This submission reflects Amnesty International’s concerns about violations of the rights to nationality, education and healthcare affecting children born into the local stateless population in Kuwait, known as the Bidun. It is based on review of Kuwait’s laws, the information it submitted to the...
August 16, 2022
News
Afghanistan
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Women protesters detained, forcibly disappeared and tortured Women and girls swept up in arrests and detained for ‘moral corruption’ Huge increase in child, early and forced marriages The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights,...
July 27, 2022
Research
Afghanistan
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
In less than a year, the Taliban have decimated the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. They have violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work and free movement; demolished the system of support for women and girls fleeing domestic violence; arbitrarily detained women and girls for...
July 27, 2022