This paper lays out the principles that businesses should adopt to avoid causing, contributing to, or being directed linked to human rights abuses and environmental harm along the battery value chain, from extraction to end-of-life, while supporting the need to promote a more efficient use of...

Joint open letter by: Action Aid, Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery, CIDSE, Clean Clothes Campaign, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, European Coalition for Corporate Justice, FIDH, Friends of the Earth Europe, Global Witness and Oxfam. All around the world, businesses are...

Joint NGO Open Letter to the London Metal Exchange, as a submission on its consultation on their Responsible Sourcing Proposal.

This advocacy briefing highlights the prevalence of torture and other ill-treatment in the world is facilitated by a global trade in instruments which have been designed with the intention of inflicting unjustifiable pain or which risk being misused in ways that can cause pain, suffering and...

Amnesty International is gravely concerned by the denial of credentials to members of civil society organizations who sought to attend the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 10 December to 13 December 2017.

Amnesty International conducted research into the cobalt due diligence policies and practices of many well-known consumer electronics companies, electric vehicle manufacturers and the companies in their supply chains. As part of the research, Amnesty International contacted these companies and...

This report builds on This is What We Die For (AFR 62/3183/2016), first published by Amnesty International and Afrewatch in 2016, which showed how cobalt mined by children and adults in hazardous conditions in the DRC entered the supply chains of many of the world’s biggest brands. This report...

The European Parliament should vote in favour of measures strengthening the European Union’s landmark regulation combatting the trade in equipment that can be used to torture, ill-treat or execute people, said Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation (Omega). Final amendments to the...

The European Parliament should vote in favour of measures strengthening the European Union’s landmark regulation combatting the trade in equipment that can be used to torture, ill-treat or execute people, said Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation (Omega). Final amendments to the...

A statement by a broad coalition of civil society groups, including Amnesty International, Global Witness and members of the Kimberley Process Civil Society Coalition, calling on all stakeholders in the diamond industry to work together to address the continuing links between diamonds, human rights...

In 2006 the European Union introduced the world’s first multilateral trade controls to prohibit the international trade in equipment which has no practical use other than for the purposes of death penalty, torture and other ill-treatment; and to control the trade in a range of policing and...

Ahead of the EU Roadmap to Business and Human Rights Conference, in this joint statement addressing the Dutch presidency of the Council of the EU, Amnesty International and partners provide recommendations for addressing the gaps- at EU and Member State level – in the protection of human...