Iranian young man Arman Abdolali is facing imminent execution for a crime that took place when he was 17 years old. After global outcries, Iranian authorities postponed hisexecution three times in October 2021. He learned on 20 October his execution is to be carried out within a week. Hossein...

In October 2021, Amnesty International wrote to Alaska Permanent Fund Corps, Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, East Riding Pension Fund, and South Yorkshire Pensions Authority noting that they were directly linked to human rights abuse through their investment stake in Novalpina Capital,...

Poland: 17 Afghans at the border violently pushed back to Belarus Amnesty International is deeply concerned about reports that 17 out of the 32 Afghans stuck on the Poland-Belarus border since August 2021 have been forcibly pushed back to Belarus after attempting to cross the barbed wire fence...

Over a thousand days into President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, Brazil is considerably worse off than when he took office. Gross mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, the aggravation of a public security crisis, and vast environmental devastation are just three outcomes of a tenure that has...

Spokespeople available  Activists and lawyers press conference outside Kosovo Environment Ministry at 13.00 20 October In Albanian below Responding to news that the Austrian-based Kelkos Energy has withdrawn its baseless defamation lawsuits against Shpresa Loshaj and Adriatik Gacaferi,...

Two years ago, on Oct. 17 2019, the people took to the streets across Lebanon with an unprecedented sense of unity, calling for the downfall of the entire political and economic power structure that has been governing the country since the end of the armed conflict in 1990. The trigger for this...

Despite promises of reform police impunity goes on  Investigation panels dashing victims’ hope of getting justice  Pro-government mobs used to instigate violence  One year after peaceful #EndSARS protests ended in a brutal crackdown by Nigerian security forces in Abuja, Lagos and...

The climate crisis is a human rights crisis. The window of opportunity to limit the increase of global average temperatures to below 1.5°C is rapidly closing. At COP26, states must take bold measures on emission reductions, climate finance, loss and damage, carbon trading mechanisms and Action for...

Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit had been missing since 29 December 2020. Despite his daughters efforts, he remained suspected victim of an abduction and enforced disappearance for 259 days. He is currently held in Sincan prison near Ankara

Emmanuel’s* dreams may seem humble, but they are not so different from those of millions of our planet’s inhabitants. “To get a job to help my wife and children. And to support my family back in Haiti,” he tells me, in a shelter in Mexico City. “We left in search of a better life for...

Eswatini authorities must drop all trumped-up charges against Members of Parliament Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube and ensure they are immediately released, Amnesty International said before the start of their trial on 20 October. The two were detained amid a wave of pro-democracy...

Anniversary Marks Ongoing Assault on Women’s Rights, Rule of Law Women, girls, and all pregnant people have faced extreme barriers to accessing legal abortions in the year since a Constitutional Tribunal ruling virtually banned legal abortion in Poland, 14 human rights organizations said today....