President Luis Abinader announced on 2 October 2024 a plan to deport up to 10,000 of people from Haiti per week, starting on 4 October 2024. This risks mass human rights violations in the Dominican Republic. This increase in deportations could intensify the existing unlawful practices of collective...

In view of the rampant human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Tunisia, especially those who are Black; Tunisia’s lack of an asylum system; the Tunisian government’s crackdown on civil society, judicial independence, and the media; and the impossibility of fairly...

In view of the rampant human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Tunisia, especially those who are Black; Tunisia’s lack of an asylum system; the Tunisian government’s crackdown on civil society, judicial independence, and the media; and the impossibility of fairly...

Venezuelan refugees in Aruba are the victims of a lack of specific asylum legislation on the island. The post-electoral crisis in Venezuela shows the urgency and need for asylum laws that both protect Venezuelans fleeing the human rights crisis in their country and facilitate and ensure their human...

Is Aruba providing sufficient protection to Venezuela asylum seekers? This report presents the findings of Amnesty International’s first research into the reality for Venezuelans seeking asylum in Aruba. Despite its obligations under international human rights treaties, Aruba faces significant...

Amnesty International submits this report ahead of the review of Thailand by the UN Committee against Torture in October 2024. It sets out Amnesty International’s key concerns on various issues related to torture and other cruel, degrading and inhuman treatments in Thailand.

Amnesty International expresses concern over the human rights situation, particularly regarding the racist and violent treatment faced by Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the implementation of migration policies that result in the racialized exclusion of these individuals by the...

Hussein Baoumi is Foreign Policy advocacy officer at Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office. This opinion piece was originally published here by EUobserver. When I started as a researcher with Amnesty International in 2017, I had just moved to Tunisia, a country that had inspired and...

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...

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 submits this information to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of the adoption of the list of issues prior to reporting for Poland. It focuses on the rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly, women’s rights, equality and non-discrimination, access...

Amnesty International submits this information to the UN Human Rights Committee (the Committee) in advance of its consideration of the second periodic report of Pakistan at the 142nd session of the Committee scheduled to be held between 14 October to 8 November 2024. This submission emphasizes...