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 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...

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...

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...

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...

By denying and restricting access to abortion to millions of people since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 with the Dobbs decision, the United States is failing to comply with its international human rights obligations and standards to ensure pregnant people have access to abortion, according...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Italy in Jan – Feb 2025. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Italy in its previous review, including in relation to the prohibition of torture, Roma’s right to adequate housing...

Reacting to the rejection of a bill to repeal the 2015 Women’s (Amendment) Act which bans female genital mutilation (FGM), by Gambia’s parliament on 15 July, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “We welcome with great relief the rejection of the...

Reacting to the signing into law of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act 2024 on 2 July by President Julius Maada Bio, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “We welcome this historic law banning child marriage in Sierra Leone. This legislation, in...

By David Ngira Somalia’s healthcare sector is ailing. This is despite the country receiving USD 4.5 Billion debt relief from IMF and the World Bank  last year which moved the country’s debt to GDP ratio from 64% to 6%. The relief followed protracted negotiations under the Highly indebted Poor...

Amnesty International is launching a new campaign calling on people the world over to help make public support for abortion rights visible to all.  Over the past 30 years, huge strides have been taken in the fight for the right to abortion, with laws changing for the better in more than 60...