News
Armenia
Domestic Violence
The Covid-19 pandemic, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and a pervasive focus on ‘traditional values’ have contributed to a deterioration in human rights and rising levels of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Amnesty International said...
December 14, 2022
Research
Armenia
Armed Conflict
Covid-19, the Russian aggression against Ukraine, and widespread reliance on “traditional values” have compounded a deteriorating human rights situation and increasing levels of domestic violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This report exposes institutional, social and cultural challenges...
December 14, 2022
Research
Nigeria
Impunity
On the first day of the 21st session of the Assembly of States Parties, Amnesty publishes four calls to the ICC prosecutor with regards to the situation of Nigeria.
December 5, 2022
News
Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Women and LGBTIQ+ protesters, journalists and human rights defenders suffered sexual violence and other forms of gender-based violence at the hands of Colombia’s National Police and its Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD) during the repression of the National Strike in 2021, Amnesty International said...
December 1, 2022
Research
Americas
Impunity
In this report, Amnesty International reveals repeated and generalized practices of violence against women, children and LGBTIQ+ people in the context of the 2021 National Strike in Colombia. Amnesty International documented 28 cases among hundreds of complaints received during that time. The...
December 1, 2022
Campaigns
Africa
Armed Conflict
On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the beginning of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, Amnesty International is reiterating its call to mediators in the ongoing peace process on Ethiopia to prioritize justice for survivors, including survivors...
November 24, 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
News
Americas
Asylum
Ecuador joins countries such as Colombia and Peru in failing on two levels to protect Venezuelan refugees who survive gender-based violence, indicating an alarming regional trend that must be urgently reversed, Amnesty International said today upon publishing a new report. Unprotected in Ecuador:...
November 17, 2022
News
Americas
Asylum
Features of Venezuelan human mobility: As of September 2022, approximately 7.1 million Venezuelans have left their country. Ecuador is the receiving country with the third highest number of Venezuelans in the world, after Colombia and Peru, with 502,214 Venezuelan refugees in the country. By the...
November 17, 2022
News
Africa
Armed Conflict
Ahead of the two-year anniversary of northern Ethiopia’s ongoing armed conflict, which broke out on 3 November 2020 and has since led to appalling violations by parties on all sides, Flavia Mwangovya, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for campaigns East Africa, Horn of Africa and the...
November 2, 2022
Research
Africa
Armed Conflict
Amnesty International welcomes the convening of the 73rd ordinary session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the first in-person session in more than two years. In this statement, Amnesty International highlights the issue of ensuring rights and justice for survivors of sexual...
October 27, 2022
News
Ethiopia
Armed Conflict
Parties to the ongoing conflict in northern Ethiopia must protect civilians amid intensifying hostilities in the Tigray region, warned Amnesty International today. The Ethiopian government said on Tuesday its army had captured the major town of Shire in north-western Tigray, which hosts thousands...
October 24, 2022