Research
Migrants
This statement is made in respect of Amnesty International Limited, the entity which employs the staff of Amnesty International’s International Secretariat and conducts its global operations, for the financial year 1 January to 31 December 2022. It describes the actions that the International...
May 16, 2023
Research
China
COVID-19
This submission sets out some of Amnesty International’s key concerns and recommendations related to the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by China. It highlights the various crimes against humanity and other grave human rights violations committed...
January 17, 2023
Research
China
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
This submission sets out some of Amnesty International’s key concerns and recommendations related to the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the government of Hong Kong SAR. It highlights a crackdown on the city’s largest trade unions, severe...
January 17, 2023
Research
Libya
Armed Conflict
The climate of impunity in Libya has fuelled horrific crimes by the Tariq Ben Zeyad armed group against thousands of Libyans and migrants since 2016 in areas under the control of the Libyan Arab Armed Forces. Libyan authorities, those in de facto control of territory and the international community...
December 19, 2022
News
Senegal
Child Labour
The Senegalese authorities must meet their obligations and take action to end violations of the rights of children often referred to as talibé ( studying in Quranic schools commonly known as daaras), Amnesty International said today in a new briefing. The economic exploitation of talibé children...
December 12, 2022
Research
Europe and Central Asia
Asylum
This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Switzerland in 2023. It indicates the approximate state of implementation of recommendations made to Switzerland during previous UPR cycles. It then captures the state of play for each theme and formulates recommendations for...
July 1, 2022
Research
Migrants
This statement is made in respect of Amnesty International Limited, the entity which employs the staff of Amnesty International’s International Secretariat and conducts its global operations, for the financial year 1 January to 31 December 2021. The International Secretariat has offices in 17...
June 30, 2022
Research
Europe and Central Asia
Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights
In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to the UK in its previous Universal Periodic Review, including in relation to proposals to weaken domestic incorporation of international human rights law, rights abusive counter-terrorism legislation,...
March 31, 2022
Research
Africa
Armed Conflict
This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to seven of the states under review at the 40th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January/February 2021. The countries covered are Iceland, South Sudan, Timor Leste, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
December 10, 2021
Research
Nigeria
COVID-19
Sexual violence is a worldwide crisis and Nigeria is not exempt from it. Over the years, there have been reports made public by individuals, civil society organisations and the media of widespread sexual violence. Following the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there was an upsurge in...
November 17, 2021
Research
Iceland
Children
This joint submission by The Icelandic Human Rights Centre, the Women’s Rights Association, Barnaheill – Save the Children Iceland, Humanists Iceland, the National Association of Intellectual Disabilities and Amnesty International addresses concerns about the Icelandic government’s...
October 21, 2021
Research
Libya
Armed Conflict
Libya has long been unsafe for refugees and migrants. Both state and non-state actors subject them to a catalogue of human rights violations and abuses including unlawful killings, torture and other ill-treatment, rape and other sexual violence, indefinite arbitrary detention in cruel and inhuman...
July 15, 2021