This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Malaysia in January-February 2024. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of its recommendations made to Malaysia in the previous UPR, including in relation to the death penalty, the rights to freedom of...

An Amnesty delegation led by the Secretary General, Agnes Callamard, and AI Taiwan Executive Director Eeling Chiu conducted an official visit to Taiwan from 24 to 29 June 2023. During the 5 days of the visit, the Amnesty delegation held meetings with representatives of the Executive Yuan, the...

Our NGO coalition welcomes the engagement of Switzerland with the UPR in an overall constructive spirit of using the UPR to improve the human rights situation in the country. However, we regret that on several key human rights challenges, federal and cantonal authorities failed to engage in a...

Reacting to the news that Russian migrants’ rights defender Tatyana Kotlyar has been convicted and fined with 650,000 roubles (US$7,500), Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, said: “Tatyana Kotlyar is being punished simply for helping hundreds of people, including migrants and...

The Human Rights Council should urgently address the deterioration of the human rights situation in Tunisia, four human rights organizations said today as the 53rd Council’s session is underway. In a letter sent to UN Member States’ Representatives on 5 June 2023, the undersigned organizations...

The GQUAL Campaign, CEJIL, Dejusticia, Amnesty International, Clínica Jurídica de Migrantes de la Universidad Diego Portales, International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) and Red Jesuita con Migrantes (RJM) call on the States Parties to the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant...

Families of the dead and missing are trapped in limbo as their attempts to find out what happened to their loved ones and efforts to ensure justice, truth and reparation are being impeded in an apparent cover up by Spanish and Moroccan authorities, said Amnesty International on the eve of the first...

Ahead of an expected vote tomorrow in Latvia’s parliament on legal amendments which would effectively enshrine in domestic legislation the ongoing practice of unlawful and often violent returns at the border, Amnesty International’s Europe Director, Nils Muižnieks, said: “This attempt to normalize...

States across the Americas must put an immediate end to the anti-Black discrimination, including race-based torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, against Haitian people seeking safety and international protection, said Amnesty International on World Refugee Day. “Racist migration...

States in the Americas must address the closure of civic space in the region, end repressive policies and respond to the social demands of the population of the region, said Amnesty International today in an open letter to heads of state attending the 53rd General Assembly of the Organization of...

The Organization of American States (OAS), on the occasion of its 53rd Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly of the States, has called for a discussion of the need to strengthen the culture of democratic responsibility and the promotion, protection and equality of human rights in the...

Re: The UN Human Rights Council should urgently respond to the global pattern of deaths, torture and other grave human rights violations at international borders