The Belarusian authorities have endangered the health of older protesters who are at higher risk from COVID-19 by transporting them in overcrowded police buses and incarcerating them in packed prison cells, Amnesty International said today. In a new briefing, the organization documented the arrest...

After suffering decades of under-investment, government negligence, and crushing poverty, the province of Cabo Delgado, the poorest in Mozambique, is now the site of a raging insurgency. Over 1,300 civilians have been killed; another 500,000 have been displaced, and towns and villages have been...

A report by Amnesty International Italia examines the impact of decisions taken and practices adopted by the authorities in responding to the pandemic in care homes in three Italian regions. Notably, these included failing to ensure the right to life, to health and to non-discrimination for...

Older people have suffered in unique ways from the conflict that has raged for almost a decade in Northeast Nigeria, with many starved or slaughtered in their homes or left to languish and die in squalid, unlawful military detention, Amnesty International said in a new report today.The 67-page...

The violence in Northeast Nigeria is now in its second decade, with both Boko Haram and the Nigerian military responsible for war crimes and likely crimes against humanity. Amid the conflict, older people’s perspectives and human rights have been largely ignored, despite the distinct and often...

A new report by Amnesty International Spain, Abandoned: The lack of protection and discrimination against older people in care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, reveals that the measures taken by the authorities to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Catalonia and Madrid have...

A series of “shockingly irresponsible” Government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care home residents’ human rights, said Amnesty International today, following an investigation by the human rights group’s Crisis Response...

A series of “shockingly irresponsible” Government decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk and led to multiple violations of care home residents’ human rights, said Amnesty International today, following an investigation by the human rights group’s Crisis Response...

COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on older persons living in care homes in England, with more than 18,500 dying in the first three months. This report examines UK government decisions and failures which resulted in violations of the human rights of people living in care homes. Amnesty...

John Sato, a 95-year-old World War Two veteran, took four buses to join an anti-racism march in central Auckland after the March 2019 Christchurch shootings. His story made headlines across the world, proving how ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things. Here, he tells Amnesty...

Tens of thousands of older women and men from ethnic minorities across Myanmar who faced military atrocities and were forced to flee their homes are being let down by a humanitarian system that often fails to adequately address their rights and needs, Amnesty International said in a report...

This advocacy booklet is a summary of the key findings and recommendations of the report “Fleeing my whole life”: Older people’s experience of conflict and displacement in Myanmar. It contains several human stories, powerful photographs and quotes of older women and men from different ethnic...