This scorecard presents an assessment of the human rights record of President Hamid Karzai’s administration since he came to power in December 2001, following the ousting of the Taliban. Amnesty International has evaluated overall trends of progress and regression in the state of human rights under...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations accepted during Yemen’s previous UPR. Amnesty International is concerned that discrimination and violence against women do not seem to have been addressed in law and practice. Child marriages, especially...

In this statement Amnesty International welcomes the initial findings by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and urges the Indian authorities to promptly take steps to address her concerns. Amnesty International shares the Special Rapporteur’s assessment of the recent...

In this document Amnesty International calls on all candidates for Pakistan’s parliamentary elections on 11 May 2013 to prioritise human rights in their campaigns. Amnesty International also calls on all candidates to commit to the ‘human rights agenda’ detailed in the letter –...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of a number of recommendations that Jordan previously accepted, including in relation to freedom of expression, torture and other ill-treatment, discrimination and violence against women, including honour killings, and foreign...

1) The Agenda 2) Up front: Kuwait at the crossroads 3) Wrongs and rights in 2012 4) One man in Guantánamo: 10 years of human wrongs 5) Egypt: These walls can speak 6) Sexual and reproductive rights: My body, my rights 7) Human Rights Friendly Schools: A vision for the future 8) Nigeria: Fighting...

A rare interview with Kim Bok-dong, a 90-year-old South Korean woman who was taken from her home village and abused as a ‘comfort woman’ by the Japanese Army during World War II.  I was 14 years old when I was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese government. They said they would hire me as...

The Islamic Republic of Iran has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and does not recognize violence against women in its laws. As a result of discriminatory laws, women face a wide range of violence, both in their domestic lives and in the...

In this submission, Amnesty International comments on the implementation of recommendations that Pakistan supported during its previous UPR in April 2008. The organization remains concerned about the absence of constitutional human rights protections for the people in FATA and the enactment of...

Amnesty International is submitting this briefing to the Human Rights Committee ahead of its examination of Yemen’s fifth periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The document provides an overview of Amnesty International’s main ongoing...

Torture has been widely viewed in the past in terms of pain and suffering inflicted on a person – usually assumed to be male – in the custody of the state. However, this narrow understanding excludes many forms of severe pain and suffering deliberately inflicted on women and girls. This report...

This briefing identifies issues, which, in the view of Amnesty International, raise concerns about the Russian Federation’s compliance with its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. It highlights in particular concerns in relation to:...