Franciscans International, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are pleased to welcome Mr. Ian Fry and his first report to this Council and deliveres this statement to HRC50.

An ongoing large-scale demolition and eviction plan, part of the Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s strategy to achieve Vision 2030, which impacts half a million people in over 60 neighbourhoods in the coastal city of Jeddah, violates international human rights standards and discriminates against...

Statement from 15 organisations, including Amnesty International, welcoming the ongoing attention by this Mandate on states’ obligations to protect against arbitrary deprivation of life; and calling on the Rapporteur to monitor and investigate violations of the right to life in the context of drug...

Wet’suwet’en land defenders in Canada are at risk of serious human rights violations and could be arrested on their territory by Canadian Police. Hereditary chiefs oppose a liquified natural gas pipeline and have not given their consent to the project. Wet’suwet’en and other land defenders have...

Warring parties must ensure that civilians are protected amid the fighting between the Movement of 23 May (M23) and the Congolese army supported by UN peacekeepers in North Kivu province, said Amnesty International today. “The military escalation in eastern DRC during M23’s resurgence is having...

President Lasso must address the structural causes of the demonstrations The repression by President Guillermo Lasso’s government of demonstrations called by Indigenous, trade union and social organisations as part of a national strike since 13 June 2022 is causing a human rights crisis with...

Two Chinese human rights activists are set to face grossly unfair trials behind closed doors this week after being targeted and tortured due to their peaceful work, Amnesty International said today. Legal scholar Xu Zhiyong and human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi will be in court this Wednesday and...

Olga Perekopaiko, a volunteer with Kyiv’s chat “Help to Ba and De” (short for babushka and dedushka – ‘granny’ and ‘grandpa’ in Russian) talked to Amnesty International in the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, about the ways in which Russia’s war against Ukraine has...

Since 2021 big fire incidents have been rife in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. Many of us lost livelihood opportunities such as shops, as well as belongings which we brought from Myanmar. On top of that, Bangladesh’s government put further restrictions on our livelihood options, access...

One year after Rozina Islam was accused of stealing confidential documents under the Official Secrets Act and Penal Code, the authorities have failed to present any evidence to substantiate the charges. She could face up to 14 years in prison or even death, if convicted. As the authorities have...

One year after Rozina Islam was accused of stealing confidential documents under the Official Secrets Act and Penal Code, the authorities have failed to present any evidence to substantiate the charges. She could face up to 14 years in prison or even death, if convicted. As the authorities have...

In response to today’s court ruling in Japan that upheld the government ban on same-sex marriage, Amnesty International’s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang said: “The court’s endorsement of the Japanese government’s discriminatory ban on same-sex marriage is a deeply damaging setback...