Text of Amnesty International’s statement delivered to the UN Human Rights Council at the time of the adoption of recommendations to Bahrain during its Universal Periodic Review. Amnesty International criticized Bahrain’s failure to accept recommendations to release prisoners of...

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Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the strategic vision of the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The submission is structured around some of the themes covered in the questions laid out by the...

Amnesty International welcomes the report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council. The organization further welcomes that the draft resolution on Iran at this session goes beyond a technical...

French lawmakers must reject any plans to use video surveillance powered by artificial intelligence (AI) at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Such draconian technologies of mass surveillance violate the rights to privacy and can lead to violations of the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful...

Responding to the International Criminal Court (ICC) issuing arrest warrants against Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, and Maria Lvova-Belova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of...

In the space of two weeks, two major shipwrecks claimed well over 100 lives in the Mediterranean. Amnesty International is concerned that both these tragic events represent the foreseeable outcome of legislation, policies and practices introduced by successive Italian governments that have...

The authorities of Kyrgyzstan have repeatedly violated the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in recent months and persecuted those who tried to exercise it, including anti-war protesters who have left Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The police have arbitrarily prevented and...

Rwandan authorities must allow an independent, impartial and effective investigation into the death of the Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali, 86 civil society organizations and media associations said today, reiterating a 31 January appeal. A credible process should be carried out given the...

Amnesty International is calling on the French Public Prosecutor for Anti-Terrorism to drop the groundless charges against Dr. Hassan Diab, more than 14 years since the effort began to convict him for the bomb attack at the rue Copernic synagogue in Paris on 3 October 1980 which killed four people...

Dear Prime Minister, Amnesty International takes note of your commitments to protect human rights in Iraq, which are an important signal, but is concerned about recent decisions by your government impacting freedom of expression. We write to urge you to take more decisive measures to break with the...

One year ago today, on International Women’s Day, Saudi Arabia passed its first Personal Status Law (PSL), which entered into force on 18 June 2022. Prior to that, Saudi Arabia did not have a codified PSL, as matters related to family life were subject to the discretionary application of the rules...