Eritrea’s improved relationship with neighbouring Ethiopia presents a good opportunity to advance the protection of the vast array of human rights that the Eritrean people have long been denied including the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, movement, and fair trial, Amnesty...

Amnesty International submits this document in advance of consideration by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of China’s periodic reports on the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination in August 2018. It...

Impunity for police abuses is deeply entrenched in Sierra Leone. For years, authorities and law-enforcement agencies routinely outlawed peaceful protests, used disproportionate force against demonstrators and limited citizens’ right to freedom of peaceful assembly. With the election of a new...

For years, authorities and law-enforcement agencies routinely outlawed peaceful protests, used disproportionate force against demonstrators and limited citizens’ right to freedom of peaceful assembly. With the election of a new government in March 2018, Sierra Leone now has a chance to put in...

Amnesty International welcomes the oral update of the Commission of Inquiry on Burundi, and their vital work to document the ongoing human rights crisis in the country. We are disappointed but not surprised that the team of experts set up by this Council was expelled from Burundi last month, and...

Nicaragua remains mired in an ongoing cycle of violence, despite numerous efforts by Nicaraguan civil society for national dialogue and calls from international organizations to stop the grave violations of human rights committed by state agents and affiliated groups. Amnesty International has...

Honduran authorities have continued to violate the human rights of people arrested during last year’s post-election protests by denying their right to due process and holding them in inhumane conditions, said Amnesty International in a report released today. Protest prohibited: Use of force and...

Equatorial Guinean cartoonist and activist Ramón Esono Ebalé was finally able to leave Equatorial Guinea on 28 May after he was issued a passport by the authorities.

In May 2018, Malaysia underwent its first change in government since independence and Amnesty International has urged the new government to address the human rights concerns highlighted in this submission. It is also an occasion to reverse repressive laws and policies, and to end the use of legal...

In this submission Amnesty International expresses concern about the increasing use of repressive laws and the intelligence service to muzzle critics and to hamper the work of human rights defenders, citizens’ movements, unionists and journalists critical of the government. Amnesty International...

Nicaraguan authorities have adopted a strategy of repression, characterized by the excessive use of force, extrajudicial executions, control of the media, and the use of pro-government armed groups, to crush protests in which at least 81 people have been killed, Amnesty International said in a new...

By Lauren Aarons, Researcher and Adviser in the Gender, Sexuality and Identity Program at Amnesty International Shortly after Halima* arrived at a displacement camp in north-east Nigeria, a soldier approached her offering chicken and yams. Halima recognized him as one of the men who had beaten her...