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...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Pakistan on 30 January 2023. Amnesty International assesses the national human rights frameworks and evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Pakistan in its previous UPR. Regarding the human rights situation on...

On 12 July 2022, Amnesty International, along with eight other international human rights NGOs sent a letter to the High Representative of the European Union and the 27 EU Foreign Ministers, calling on the European Union to initiate, table and foster broad support for a resolution to create a...

The Colombian and Peruvian states are largely absent when it comes to guaranteeing, protecting and respecting the right to a life free of violence and discrimination for Venezuelan refugee women, who face gender-based violence in all areas of life, Amnesty International said today in its new...

Facts about Venezuelan people on the move: As of May 2022, more than 6 million Venezuelans have left their country. Of these, more than 5 million are currently in another country in Latin American. Colombia and Peru have received the largest number of Venezuelan refugees: 1.84 million people in...

In Colombia and Peru, the two main receiving countries for Venezuelan refugees in the Americas region, Venezuelan women face multiple forms of violence in public spaces, at home and at work. Despite this, they are denied access to justice and health services because of stereotypes related to their...

More than 130 local and global women’s rights, human rights and sexual and reproductive health and rights organisations working in Europe, including Amnesty International, express their profound solidarity with the millions of people in the United States whose right to essential reproductive health...

Prosecution authorities and Ministry of Intelligence agents are denying arbitrarily detained Kurdish Iranian woman So’ada Khadirzadeh postnatal and post-surgical care after she gave birth on 20 June 2022 in hospital through a caesarean section operation. She is also denied adequate healthcare for...

Many Zimbabweans are living in fear of being abducted, forcibly disappeared or tortured by state security forces for expressing themselves. While Zimbabwe has supported 168 out of 264 recommendations, Amnesty International is concerned that the lack of progress towards implementation of similar...

This submission to Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on racism and the right to health covers the following themes: barriers to accessing health faced by groups facing racial discrimination, lack of social determinants of health due to racial discrimination and structural...

This statement highlights that Timor-Leste can do more to protect the rights of women, survivors of violence, protect LGBTI people, recognise marriage equality, end early marriage and fully decriminalise abortion. It also highlights that Timor-Leste failed to make clear and measurable commitments...

This oral statement was delivered by Amnesty International at the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Council and provides commentary on the outcome of Iceland’s 3rd Universal Periodic Review. Specifically, it welomes the commitment to establish a strong, independent National Human Rights...