The dire state of transgender people’s rights to healthcare, housing, and employment in Asia and the Pacific Islands worsened at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Amnesty International said today. The organization is calling for governments in the region – and world over – to ensure...

The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing is the latest human rights expert to recognize that Israel is committing apartheid against Palestinians. At the UN General Assembly today, Special Rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal presented a report on housing rights worldwide...

The Israeli authorities must immediately halt the forcible eviction of more than 1,000 residents from Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, Amnesty International said today, following weeks in which the Israeli army has repeatedly harassed people in the area, demolished...

Facts about Venezuelan people on the move: As of May 2022, more than 6 million Venezuelans have left their country. Of these, more than 5 million are currently in another country in Latin American. Colombia and Peru have received the largest number of Venezuelan refugees: 1.84 million people in...

For years, Amnesty International has said that Chile needs a new Constitution because the current one, which was imposed during the regime of Augusto Pinochet, has shown that it does not contribute to reducing the inequalities, precariousness and abuses experienced by the vast majority of the...

For most of his life, Marco has suffered from social anxiety. He does not like large groups and therefore has got used to using headphones as a strategy for dealing with the overcrowded world around him. This has allowed him to avoid hearing much of what is said about him, but at some point he...

This report examines law, policy and practice concerning homelessness in England from a human rights perspective and highlights gaps between the UK’s international human rights commitments and its approach to homelessness at the domestic level. It provides an overview of homelessness in England and...

Israeli authorities must scrap plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village and forcibly transfer its residents to a segregated Bedouin-only town, Amnesty International said today.  On 22 and 23 May the Beersheba Magistrate’s Court will hear an appeal submitted by 127 households of the...

For three decades, over half a million Azerbaijanis who fled war with Armenia have endured the limbo of displacement. In 2020, renewed fighting resulted in Azerbaijan retaking huge swathes of territory. As the government plans for the return of hundreds of thousands of displaced people to those...

Amnesty International welcomes this opportunity to address the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission) on the occasion of its 69th ordinary session. For decades now, Amnesty International has worked to defend the rights of Indigenous peoples in all regions of the world....

This research project forms part of a comprehensive project of Amnesty International Austria focussing on poverty and human rights. This initial research briefing examines how the right to housing is being respected, protected and implemented, specifically in the case of people experiencing...

Rivers State authorities have forcibly evicted thousands of residents of waterfront communities from their homes in the Diobu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in southern Nigeria. The area is home to an estimated population of 60,000 people. The Governor must halt any plans for further...