This is the second blog from a search and rescue operation with the Italian Navy by Amnesty’s Europe campaigner, Matteo de Bellis. We are patrolling the central Mediterranean between the Italian island of Lampedusa, Tunisia and Libya. The Virginio Fasan is the biggest vessel in this area and will...

Egyptian human rights organizations have been warned they face closure and criminal prosecution, ahead of a government deadline for them to register under the Law on Associations. The authorities have also proposed a draft law that would erode the independence of non-governmental organizations...

This external Evaluation of two years of Amnesty International’s (AI) Campaign in favour of an Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) was commissioned to assess AI’s contribution towards the content and adoption of the remarkable treaty which was finally adopted on 2 April 2013.

Faced with a large empty room in front of her, Ionela is feeling nervous about the day ahead. She chose this setting because she thought it would have a warm and cozy atmosphere. Her aim was to create a comfortable space for 25 young people to start discussing their sexual and reproductive rights....

(BORGO MEZZANONE, ITALY) Ebrima’s bedroom is a stark corrugated square, five metres long and five metres wide. He shares it with one other asylum seeker – each has a foam mattress over a camp bed to sleep on. Wires dangle from a broken light in the ceiling and the floor is carpeted in dust, crumbs...

Hajras al-Qurey was not executed on 25 August, as had been expected, but is still at imminent risk of execution.

An Indigenous human rights defender from the community of Matías Romero in Oaxaca, south-western Mexico, is at risk of death if she returns to her hometown. She has received a series of threats due to her work on Indigenous rights issues and the authorities have so far failed to provide adequate...

The Vietnamese authorities must stop attacks on peaceful activists, Amnesty International said today after three human rights defenders were sentenced to jail and police beat and arrested their supporters. Women activists Bui Thi Minh Hang and Nguyen Thi Thuy Quynh, along with their male...

The armed group calling itself the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) must not carry out ‘executions’, including a reported threat of killing prisoners facing life sentences, Amnesty International said today.  On Friday Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council announced that fighters from the...

The Iraqi authorities must properly investigate the unlawful killing of dozens of worshippers at a Sunni mosque north-east of the capital Baghdad today, Amnesty International said. About 70 people are believed to have been killed and dozens injured by a suicide bomb at a mosque in Diyala province...

Hamas must halt its campaign of summary executions of suspected collaborators, Amnesty International today said after at least 18 more Palestinians were put to death by firing squad for allegedly providing information to Israel. It brings the number of alleged informants executed in the past two...

The current surge in executions in Saudi Arabia is continuing unabated with another beheading scheduled for Monday 25 August, said Amnesty International today. The planned beheading of Hajras al-Qurey will be the 23rd execution in the last three weeks — although more could take place on Saturday...