Amnesty International welcomes the government’s commitment to investigate and prosecute human rights violations by its security forces and to uphold the principle of non-refoulment for Rohingya refugees. Regrettably, the government has not accepted recommendations to abolish the death penalty, nor...
It is with regret but no particular surprise that we note that the Russian authorities have made no meaningful commitments following its UPR, and only accepted broad recommendations not requiring any real action. The Russian Government’s responses contradict well-known facts, demonstrating its...
Amnesty International, in its ten-point Human Rights Charter, urges the newly elected Government of Pakistan to prioritize and commit to the following recommendations to uphold human rights in the country. Amnesty International invites Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and respective provincial...
An abridged version of this statement was delivered to the 55th session of the Human Rights Council. In the oral statement, Amnesty International expresses concerns about the impact of the UN’s liquidity crisis on the UN human rights system, even as the world faces an increasing number of human...
We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj. While on a professional assignment on 20 March 2023, Mehraj was summoned for questioning and arbitrarily detained by India’s National...
Since the occupation of Crimea 10 years ago, Russia has sought to change the peninsula’s ethnic makeup and suppress the Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar communities, Amnesty International said today in a new publication, on the tenth anniversary of the illegal annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula by...
Amnesty International writes a joint letter with other human rights organizations to call on member states of United Nations Human Right Council to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and...