News
Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
After closely monitoring the situation in Peru, Amnesty International has deployed a specialized crisis response team to investigate serious human rights violations and possible crimes under international law committed in the context of the wave of protests that began last December. “The world is...
January 30, 2023
News
Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
In its first year in office, President Xiomara Castro’s government has not been decisive in fulfilling its international human rights obligations. Although it has taken some timely actions that advance its commitments in this area, the Honduran government will have to be more forceful to counteract...
January 27, 2023
Research
Argentina
Armed Conflict
This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January/February 2023. The countries covered are Czech Republic, Argentina, Gabon, Ghana, Peru, Guatemala, Benin, Republic of Korea, Switzerland,...
January 19, 2023
News
Africa
Climate change
Reacting to the severe flooding and landslides in Kinshasa, which claimed 120 lives on 12 and 13 December and left thousands homeless, Flavia Mwangovya, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns in East Africa, Horn of Africa, and the Great Lakes regions said: “Amnesty...
December 15, 2022
News
Europe and Central Asia
Armed Conflict
Older people killed and injured at higher rates than other groups Older people living in damaged houses and dangerous conditions Russia’s invasion has led to thousands of displaced older people living in overstretched state institutions Older people in Ukraine have been disproportionately impacted...
December 6, 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
Angola
Disappearances
Authorities in Angola must account for the whereabouts of a five-year-old boy who went missing after police raided the Mucubai Community in Ndamba area in the outskirts of the city of Moçâmedes, the capital of Namibe Province in which 16 houses were torched and personal belongings including...
October 20, 2022
Research
Asia and the Pacific
Discrimination
The ongoing economic crisis has had a devastating impact on people in Sri Lanka. This report highlights the challenges people in Sri Lanka are facing in accessing their rights to health and food, and some of the limitations of existing social security programmes in the country. It focusses on the...
October 4, 2022
Research
Angola
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
On 24 August 2022, Angolans will have their fifth general election since 1992. This human rights manifesto is intended to encourage all the Angolan political parties and their candidates in this electoral cycle to provide information to the electorate on what they intend to do, and how, to tackle...
August 16, 2022
News
Americas
Asylum
Their story begins with them fleeing mass violations of human rights. It continues at the border, where they face requirements that are impossible to meet while seeking protection. While en route to a new home they face harassment, robbery, extortion, and exploitation. Upon arrival they have to...
July 22, 2022
Research
Business and Human Rights
Joint statement from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Knowledge Ecology International, and the People’s Vaccine Alliance on the UN Human Rights Council’s adoption by consensus of a resolution on Access to medicines, vaccines and other health products in the context of the right of...
July 11, 2022
Research
Americas
Poverty
More than 130 local and global women’s rights, human rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights organisations working in Europe, including Amnesty International, express their profound solidarity with the millions of people in the United States whose right to essential reproductive health...
July 11, 2022