We are sending this open letter to President Javier Milei to make him aware of Amnesty International’s serious concerns about the human rights situation in Argentina under your government. We recognise that the economic and social crisis that the country has been going through for years has...

Amnesty International and other human rights organisations welcome the draft resolution entitled “Protecting the human rights and improving the lives of sex workers and victims of sexual exploitation” (Doc. 16044), adopted by the Equality and Non Discrimination Committee of the Parliamentary...

Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (44th Ordinary Session). The statement focused on girls and young women in north-east Nigeria who suffered horrific abuse in Boko Haram captivity, with many survivors...

Fernanda Doz Costa, Director of Gender, Racial Justice, Refugees and Migrants Rights Program at Amnesty International. Hate emails, stigmatization, death threats, stalking, burglaries, attacks, harassment at work and at home. Killings. This is what life is like for many who provide life-saving...

We created our feminist organization Las Libres (the Free Ones) in 2000 because we wanted to promote women’s rights and be there for those who had been raped. It seemed completely inhuman to think that these girls would have to bring these pregnancies to term. We wanted to make sure their rights...

Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the UN Human Rights Council during the Consideration of UPR reports on Item 6.

Responding to the announcement by Australia, Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands during the UN General Assembly yesterday that they will initiate legal proceedings that could ultimately lead to action at the International Court of Justice against Afghanistan for numerous violations of the UN...

People defending the right to abortion have revealed what it’s like to provide life-saving healthcare in the face of violence, repression and stigma, as part of Amnesty International’s second season of On the Side of Humanity podcast. The three-part series – slated for release on International Safe...

Ninety Afghan, regional and international non-governmental organizations have recently renewed their appeal to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to establish an independent investigative mechanism, complementary to the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in...

See below.

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...

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...