A new UN report setting out strategies to better protect child and young human rights defenders is a major step forward for activists across the world, said Amnesty International ahead of the launch of the document. The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Mary Lawlor,...

Responding to the European Commission’s decision to investigate TikTok over concerns that  the online social media platform may be failing to comply with the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) by not doing enough to protect young users , Damini Satija, Programme Director at Amnesty Tech, said: “We...

In this submission Amnesty International welcomes the Pact for the Future initiative and its zero draft. For Amnesty International, there is only one acceptable pathway to the future – that which is paved with human rights – universal and indivisible. And there is only one acceptable destination –...

Abdullah al-Derazi and Jalal Labbad are at risk of imminent execution after Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court secretly upheld their death sentences in secret, without notifying their families or lawyers. Both young men were under the age of 18 at the time of their alleged crimes and were sentenced for...

Dear Members of the European Parliament, We, experts, academics and civil society groups, are writing to express our profound alarm at the social-media driven mental health crisis harming our young people and children. We urge you to take immediate action to rein in the abusive Big Tech business...

Growing up, I struggled with Thailand’s strict education system. As a girl going to high school, my hair had to be a certain length. I wasn’t allowed to colour my hair and my socks had to be a certain height.  Living in a middle-class household, expectations were high. I studied seven days a week...

Some might find information in this Press Release triggering. TikTok’s content recommender system and its invasive data collection practicespose a danger to young users of the platform by amplifying depressive and suicidal content that risk worsening existing mental health challenges, two companion...

Through its seamless hyper-personalization, TikTok has created an addictive platform, despite mounting evidence of the serious health risks associated with children’s compulsive use of social media. Examining further risks of TikTok’s content targeting, Amnesty International’s research shows that...

TikTok’s highly personalized ‘For You’ feed has helped it to become, in the space of a few years, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world with over 1 billion users, many of whom are children between the ages of 13 and 17. But behind the never-ending feed of lip-syncing and dance...

Survey on Children and Young People’s Experiences on Social Media conducted in 2022, as part of research contributing to two Amnesty International reports: “I Feel Exposed”: Caught in TikTok’s Surveillance Web (Index: POL 40/7349/2023) and Driven into Darkness: How TikTok encourages self-harm and...

The Iranian authorities’ relentless onslaught against weekly peaceful protests by thousands of protesters and worshippers from Iran’s oppressed Baluchi minority in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan province, escalated on Friday 20 October, as security forces resorted to severe beatings, unlawful use...

Millions of people at protests and events being held worldwide in coming days will call for a halt to the use of fossil fuels, echoing Amnesty International’s view that this is essential to try and prevent the climate catastrophe from escalating. Amnesty International is supporting several of the...