On 3 October 2023, the Pakistani government announced its decision to deport unregistered Afghan refugees back to danger in Afghanistan from 1 November, in brazen breach of its international obligations. Since November, authorities have deported Afghans and increased the crackdown on unregistered...

Mass evictions affecting thousands of families at the Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site violate international human rights law, Amnesty International said today, as it published new research exposing how Cambodian authorities forced people to relocate in the name of conservation. During the second...

This report highlights the human rights violations that have occurred in the context of the continuing relocation of thousands of residents from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor in Cambodia between 2022 and 2023. The report also assesses the actions and responsibilities of the Cambodian...

The Zimbabwean authorities must immediately address the escalating cases of abductions, arbitrary detention, torture and killing of parliament members, opposition political activists, and human rights defenders, Amnesty International, Southern Defenders and Human Rights Watch said today. The...

Amnesty International is calling for an immediate and unconditional release of Roman Ivanov, journalist from Korolev, Moscow Oblast, who is standing trial on charges of “public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of Russian Armed Forces abroad committed with the motive of...

An agreement at the COP28 summit to end the production and use of fossil fuels is vital to prevent a global climate catastrophe and stop an unprecedented human rights crisis which threatens the rights of billions of people from escalating, Amnesty International said today. In a briefing titled,...

Ahead of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, which will discuss the current escalation of the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Amnesty International is urging the ministers attending to call for an immediate ceasefire by all parties to the...

The climate emergency is an unprecedented global human rights crisis. Fossil fuel combustion is the primary cause of climate change, which has been settled science for decades. This briefing provides examples of how the production, transformation and use of fossil fuels – enabled and prolonged by...

On 14 November 2023, Cameroon’s human rights record will be reviewed at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, during the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). On this occasion, Amnesty International and different civil society organizations of Cameroon are calling publicly on the UN member...

On 13 November 2023, Amnesty International submitted a third-party intervention to the Belfast High Court in a legal challenge brought by several victims of the Northern Ireland conflict to the UK Government’s Northern Ireland (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023. Martina Dillon, John McEvoy, and...

UN Member states must use the UN’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Bangladesh to hold the authorities to account for the gross human rights violations and rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in the country ahead of its general elections, said Amnesty International today....

More than a million signatures from people around the world have been gathered for an Amnesty International petition demanding an immediate ceasefire to end the unparalleled escalation of hostilities in Gaza and Israel since 7 October 2023. In response, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director of...