This submission was prepared for the fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Argentina on 23 January 2023. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Argentina in its previous UPR in November 2017, assesses the national human rights framework and provides...

Charges against an activist facing up to three years in prison for helping a pregnant woman access abortion pills in Poland must be dropped said Amnesty International today ahead of the resumption of her trial in Warsaw tomorrow. In November 2021 human rights defender, Justyna Wydrzyńska, was...

In response to today’s Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Tarah Demant, interim national director for programs, advocacy and government affairs at Amnesty International USA, said: “Today marks a grim milestone in the history of the United States as the Supreme Court has overturned Roe...

In response to a court ruling in El Salvador that sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison for aggravated homicide after suffering an obstetric emergency, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said: “This sentence is a travesty of justice. Suffering an obstetric emergency...

In response to reports that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights in the United States, Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said: “Overturning Roe vs. Wade would not only be the outcome of decades of hateful campaign against women’s rights; it would also...

An Amnesty International delegation met with President Gabriel Boric today to discuss the human rights situation in the country and to deliver a document setting out priority issues in the agenda for dialogue between the Chilean government and the organization. The delegation was led by Erika...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of South Africa in November 2022. The submission evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to South Africa in its previous UPR, including in relation to gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health, education...

Charges against Justyna Wydrzyńska, a human rights defender who faces up to three years in prison for supporting a pregnant woman who needed a safe abortion in Poland, should be immediately dropped, Amnesty International said today ahead of the start of her trial in Warsaw tomorrow. In 2020,...

In this document, Amnesty International offers an evaluation of the implementation of recommendations made to Ecuador in its previous Universal Periodic Review (UPR) regarding the protection of human rights defenders, free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous peoples, and decriminalization of...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to the UK in its previous Universal Periodic Review, including in relation to proposals to weaken domestic incorporation of international human rights law, rights abusive counter-terrorism legislation,...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Poland in 2022. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Poland in its previous UPR, including freedom of peaceful assembly, asylum law, children’s rights, LGBTI rights, women’s...

Local and global women’s rights, human rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights organizations working in Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Ukraine, call on decision makers across Europe and the broader international community to take swift, effective and coordinated action...