This submission sets out some of Amnesty International’s key concerns and recommendations related to the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the government of Hong Kong SAR. It highlights a crackdown on the city’s largest trade unions, severe...

This submission has been prepared in advance of the consideration by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights at its 73rd session of the second periodic report on Cambodia’s implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The submission provides...

Amnesty International submits the following response to the call to evidence by the Independent Commission on UK Counter-Terrorism Law, Policy and Practice. This submission is a select summary of Amnesty International’s work on counter-terrorism concerns in the UK since 2007. The past 15 years have...

Amnesty International presents this submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in advance of the review of Norway’s tenth periodic report on measures taken to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the...

Covid-19, the Russian aggression against Ukraine, and widespread reliance on “traditional values” have compounded a deteriorating human rights situation and increasing levels of domestic violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This report exposes institutional, social and cultural challenges...

On 24 June 2022, the deadliest incident ever recorded at the Melilla border between Morocco and Spain left at least 37 Black people dead and 77 more missing. The victims, refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa seeking safety, were met with prolonged and unlawful use of force by Moroccan and...

This document provides a list of executions of persons who were children at the time of the offence ranging from a period of 1990-2021. This version (ACT 50/6285/2022) is the most up to date and replaces version titled: Executions of juveniles since 1990 (as of November 2019) (ACT 50/0233/2019).

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has been marked by a flagrant disregard for civilian life, has had a devastating impact on older people. This report shows how older people have made up a disproportionate number of civilian deaths and injuries. It also shows how intersecting...

In this report, Amnesty International reveals repeated and generalized practices of violence against women, children and LGBTIQ+ people in the context of the 2021 National Strike in Colombia. Amnesty International documented 28 cases among hundreds of complaints received during that time. The...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Israel in its previous Universal Periodic Review, including in relation to arbitrary detention and torture, discrimination, movement restrictions, and impunity.

Over the last 10 years, the human rights situation in Russia has been continuously deteriorating. The authorities have severely curtailed people’s rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, deploying a whole arsenal of laws and practices that are in stark contrast to...