Sexual violence is a significant issue in Guinea. It is known for being the country with the second highest level of female genital mutilation in Africa. Forced marriage is also very common. Rape has long remained a taboo topic and little documented; in recent years, however, the silence has been...

Belarusian human rights defender Nasta Loika has been arbitrarily detained since 6 September on trumped up charges of “petty hooliganism”. She is being denied access to her lawyer, warm clothing, and basic necessities, as well as to the medical care she requires. Nasta Loika is being targeted...

The appeal hearing against the acquittal of artist and activist Yulia Tsvetkova is expected to take place on 27 September. Criminal proceedings were opened against Yulia Tsvetkova in 2019 for her artistic drawings of women’s bodies under absurd charges of “production and dissemination of...

Authorities in Egypt have shown no genuine will to acknowledge, let alone address, the country’s deep-rooted human rights crisis despite launching a National Human Rights Strategy one year ago. Instead, they have continued to stifle freedoms and commit crimes under international law in the lead up...

Egypt’s National Human Rights Strategy (NHRS) was launched one year ago by the Egyptian authorities to conceal their abysmal human rights record and deflect criticism. Amnesty International’s analysis reveals that the NHRS paints a deeply misleading picture of the human rights situation. The...

Drawing on a traditional form of popular protest across the world, demonstrators will bang pots and pans outside Congress from 11:30am-12:30pm on Thursday September 22 to call for an end to the anti-Black and traumatic ill-treatment of Haitian asylum seekers by US authorities, which amounts to...

During elections, candidates have a forum that amplifies their statements and so too their repercussions, for better or worse. At these crucial moments, the public must have access to reliable, objective and evidence-based information. In any context, the right to freedom of expression must be...

Participants will learn about freedom of expression and opinion, and the right to protest, through the real story of Nasser Zefzafi, a community leader and human rights defender in Morocco who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for speaking out. As part of the activity, participants are...

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to the states under review at the 41st session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in November 2022. The countries covered are Algeria, Bahrain, Brazil, Ecuador, Finland, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland,...

Sahrawi woman activist Sultana Khaya managed to leave her house in Boujdour, Western Sahara, on 30 May and travel to Spain for medical care. Under arbitrary house arrest since November 2020, the restrictions placed on her have yet to be officially removed and it remains unclear whether she would be...

This submission sets out Amnesty International’s concerns and recommendations regarding the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the government of the Philippines. It highlights concerns with regard to violations committed in the context of punitive drug...

Reacting to today’s expected appointment of Volker Türk as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty’s Secretary General, said: “Volker Türk is being appointed to the UN’s top human rights role at a time of considerable threats to human rights around the world....