Venezuelan refugees in Aruba are the victims of a lack of specific asylum legislation on the island. The post-electoral crisis in Venezuela shows the urgency and need for asylum laws that both protect Venezuelans fleeing the human rights crisis in their country and facilitate and ensure their human...

Responding to reports of the ongoing arbitrary detention of hundreds of people, including members of the academic community, in major towns across Ethiopia’s Amhara region since 28 September 2024, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “The...

What is a crime against humanity?  Crimes against humanity refer to certain crimes committed as part of widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population. They shock the conscience of humanity itself. The first prosecution using the term occurred when Nazi leaders were tried at...

Slovenia and Montenegro must stop the Portuguese-flagged MV Kathrin, believed to be carrying explosives bound for Israel, from docking at their ports, given the clear risk that such cargo would contribute to the commission of war crimes in Gaza, Amnesty International said.  According to Namibia’s...

Is Aruba providing sufficient protection to Venezuela asylum seekers? This report presents the findings of Amnesty International’s first research into the reality for Venezuelans seeking asylum in Aruba. Despite its obligations under international human rights treaties, Aruba faces significant...

Amnesty International submits this report ahead of the review of Thailand by the UN Committee against Torture in October 2024. It sets out Amnesty International’s key concerns on various issues related to torture and other cruel, degrading and inhuman treatments in Thailand.

By Jean Mobert Senga, Amnesty International’s DRC researcher Speaking at the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2024, President Tshisekedi ignored the continuing deterioration of human rights under his own government. The international community must push him to change course. At the start of his...

Successive Iraqi governments have failed to ensure justice, truth and reparation for the lethal crackdown against the 2019 Tishreen [October] protests that led to the killing and disappearance of hundreds and the injury of thousands of protesters, Amnesty International said today, ahead of the...

On 1 October 2019, mass protests erupted across Iraq, known as the Tishreen protests, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets. In response, Iraqi security forces used excessive and unlawful lethal force against mostly peaceful demonstrators, killing hundreds. On the five-year anniversary...

Humanitarian worker and civil society activist Pakhshan Azizi, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish ethnic minority, is at risk of execution following a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. In July 2024, she was sentenced to death solely in relation to her peaceful humanitarian and...

Saudi Arabian authorities have put to death over 198 individuals so far in 2024, the highest number of executions recorded in the country since 1990, Amnesty International said today. Despite repeated promises to limit the use of the death penalty, Saudi authorities have ramped up executions while...

Fernanda Doz Costa, Director of Gender, Racial Justice, Refugees and Migrants Rights Program at Amnesty International. Hate emails, stigmatization, death threats, stalking, burglaries, attacks, harassment at work and at home. Killings. This is what life is like for many who provide life-saving...