Responding to the unanimous adoption of the resolution at the UN Security Council today demanding that the Taliban urgently lift restrictions that violate the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan in response to the latest ban on Afghan women working for the UN in the country, Joyce Bukuru,...

We, the undersigned, express our deepest concern regarding the Taliban’s systematic crackdown on dissent and deepening repression of human rights defenders in Afghanistan. This ongoing crackdown on critical voices has increased in scope and scale, sending a chilling effect that aims to stifle the...

Today marks the second anniversary since ASEAN agreed on the Five Point Consensus in response to the military coup in Myanmar. The Myanmar military has ignored calls from the international community to stop the violence. Moreover, since the coup, the Myanmar military has committed war crimes and...

Lilia Hemedzhy, a lawyer representing Crimean Tatars, has been disbarred, from the Bar Association of the Chechen Republic, in retaliation for her work in Russian-occupied Crimea. Previously, her request to be transferred to the Bar Association of Crimea had been arbitrarily declined. This decision...

The rights to education, health and life of millions of schoolgirls are at risk amid ongoing chemical gas attacks deliberately targeting girls’ schools in Iran. Since November 2022, thousands of schoolgirls have been poisoned and hospitalized. The authorities have failed to adequately investigate...

Nine years after Boko Haram abducted 276 students from a girls’ school in Chibok, 98 girls are still being held by Boko Haram and a slew of abductions have taken place since, revealing the utter failure of the Nigerian authorities to learn from the heartbreak of Chibok and, ultimately, to protect...

Amnesty International presents this submission in advance of the review of Spain’s ninth periodic report on measures taken to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. It focuses on sexual and gender-based violence, including barriers to justice as...

Experts and Non-Governmental Organisations welcomed the adoption by Iraq of the Yazidi Survivors Law on 1 March 2021, establishing an administrative reparation programme aimed at giving effect to survivors’ right to reparation. While the law is ground-breaking in many respects, there are serious...

The European Coalition on Sex Workers’ Rights and Inclusion presents this submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in advance of the review of Spain’s ninth periodic report on measures taken to implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

Reacting to Uzbekistan’s upper house of Parliament passing legislation that criminalizes domestic violence, Heather McGill, Amnesty International’s Central Asia Researcher, said: “Women rights activists and human rights defenders in Uzbekistan have been campaigning for years for better protection...

Severe violations of human rights continue unabated in both Algeria and Morocco, while many laws in each country are far from aligned with international standards, Amnesty International said today, following the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Reviews (UPR) of each country’s human...

The final report of the Fact-Finding Mission is a harrowing read. The Mission found that crimes under international law and other serious human rights violations continue unabated, including arbitrary detention, rape and other forms of torture, enslavement, sexual slavery, extrajudicial killings...