New Covid-19 restrictions in Tunisia banning all public gatherings effectively impose a blanket ban on public demonstrations, and thus impede people’s rights to free expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said today. The restrictions came into force on 13 January, amid signs of...

Wealthy states and pharma companies have catastrophically failed to ensure equal access to vaccines, leaving billions of people without life-saving medicines this year, Amnesty International said today as 2021 draws to a close.    Despite repeated calls from Amnesty International and...

On 22 December, new rules will come into force in Tunisia mandating the use of a Covid-19 vaccine pass for many places and activities, including restaurants, public buildings, and other public and private workplaces. Enforcing those rules will restrict excessively the rights to work and to freedom...

On 26 November the Attorney General delivered to the Supreme Court a set of requests demanding further investigations into allegations made by the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission on the mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, whose report he had received on 27 October. On 3 December, a Supreme Court...

Rajat Khosla, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Advocacy, Research and Policy “The pandemic is a clear test of international cooperation — a test we have essentially failed,” these were the words of United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres in his address to a UN Security...

Covid-19 vaccination programmes across the world are excluding people from marginalized and discriminated groups by failing to take into account their unique circumstances, needs and vulnerabilities, said Amnesty International, in a public statement issued today. Shortcomings in national...

In many countries around the world, people from groups who face discrimination or marginalization, or who have been subject to oppression historically, are facing unique and additional challenges to access Covid-19 vaccines. This is because of insufficient or inadequate consideration of their...

Equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines is vital in ensuring that every individual has the right to enjoy the best attainable state of physical and mental health in the context of the current pandemic. But pharmaceutical companies continue to prioritize supplying high-income countries who are also...

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.

Amnesty International is concerned about the punitive and discriminatory nature of a fine of 100 Euro per month which will be imposed on people over 60 if they do not comply with compulsory vaccination for COVID-19, following the adoption of a legal provision by the Greek Parliament last week. Such...

To mark the one-year anniversary of the first Covid-19 vaccine administered worldwide, Amnesty International’s Health Advisor, Tamaryn Nelson, said: “The recent emergence of the Omicron variant is a stark reminder of what happens when we fail to address the pandemic at a global...

Authorities across Southern Africa must immediately take action to protect girls’ rights to health, information, education, equality and to live freely from gender-based violence and discrimination, Amnesty International said today as the world continues to mark 16 Days of Activism against...