News
Middle East and North Africa
Armed Conflict
Syrian government forces must lift a brutal blockade on civilians in predominantly Kurdish areas in the northern Aleppo region that is obstructing residents’ access to fuel and other essential supplies, Amnesty International said today. Since the government imposed the blockade in August 2022, tens...
January 24, 2023
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
Research
Russian Federation
Discrimination
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has been marked by a flagrant disregard for civilian life, has had a devastating impact on older people. This report shows how older people have made up a disproportionate number of civilian deaths and injuries. It also shows how intersecting...
December 6, 2022
Research
Africa
Armed Groups
It is seven years since the first peace deal was signed in South Sudan and with it a commitment made to set up a African Union-backed up Hybrid Court for South Sudan (HCSS) to investigate and prosecute war crimes and other human rights violations committed in the conflict since 2011. But the...
November 23, 2022
Research
Asia and the Pacific
Death Penalty
Almost two years after the military coup, over 1.4 million people are displaced inside Myanmar, 12,839 people are detained in inhumane conditions, at least 73 people remain on death row, and 7.8 million children are out of school. The Myanmar military has killed hundreds of protesters and...
November 10, 2022
Research
Russian Federation
Armed Conflict
Russian and Russian-controlled forces have committed war crimes and likely crimes against humanity by unlawfully transferring or deporting civilians from certain occupied parts of Ukraine. Russian and Russian-controlled authorities also forced civilians through an abusive screening process known as...
November 10, 2022
Research
Africa
Climate change
Amnesty International welcomes this opportunity to address the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) following the presentation of the inter-session activity report of the Chairperson of the Working Group on Extractive Industries, Environment, and Human Rights...
October 27, 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
News
Middle East and North Africa
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Ahead of a United Nations General Assembly meeting on 21 July to discuss the Russian veto of a Security Council resolution which would have allowed the UN to continue delivery of cross-border aid to north-west Syria for one year, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary...
July 20, 2022
News
Middle East and North Africa
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
The United Nations Security Council members must extend the cross-border resolution that allows the UN to deliver aid to at least 4 million residents and internally displaced people (IDPs) in north-west Syria before it expires on 10 July, Amnesty International said today. In a new report,...
July 5, 2022
Research
Syria
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
In this report, Amnesty International examines the denial of key economic and social rights of internally displaced persons living in displacement camps, as the most vulnerable within the displacement community. The report examines their day-to-day lives in relation to their rights to access to...
July 5, 2022
Campaigns
Ukraine
Discrimination
Olga Perekopaiko, a volunteer with Kyiv’s chat “Help to Ba and De” (short for babushka and dedushka – ‘granny’ and ‘grandpa’ in Russian) talked to Amnesty International in the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, about the ways in which Russia’s war against Ukraine has...
June 21, 2022