What are the Apple threat notifications?  On 10 April 2024, Apple sent threat notifications to users of iPhones in 92 countries. According to Tech Crunch, the warning text read:  “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the...

The Jordanian authorities must immediately cease their crackdown on pro-Gaza protests and immediately release dozens of activists who have been illegally detained solely because of their peaceful criticism of the government’s policies towards Israel, Amnesty International said today. Since 7...

Today marks five years of Julian Assange being detained in Belmarsh, a high security prison in the UK. As he fights the extradition request from the US authorities, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “Julian Assange dared to bring to light revelations of alleged war...

Responding to today’s European Parliament vote to adopt a package of new European Union (EU) laws on migration and asylum, Eve Geddie, Amnesty International’s Head of the European Institutions Office and Director of Advocacy, said: “After years of negotiations, EU institutions are now shamefully...

Amnesty International is hosting the Global Youth Summit on Digital Rights in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 13 to15 April 2024.   The three-day event, which will bring together hundreds of youth delegates from across the globe will provide a space for children and young people to share ideas and...

The girls who are rebuilding their lives I am one of the abducted Chibok girls. It was painful to be separated from my parents. My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls. We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force […]

Amnesty International is urging shareholders in the US-based Dow to consider withdrawing their investment from the chemicals company if it fails to rapidly meet its human rights responsibilities towards the more than 500,000 people still suffering from the Bhopal disaster, one of the world’s worst...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for input to inform an expert workshop and the High Commissioner’s comprehensive study on the human rights dimension of care and support to be presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-eight session in 2025. This submission includes links to some...

During 2022 and 2023, Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities responded to unprecedented protests in Sri Lanka with unlawful use of tear gas and water cannon and the misuse of batons. Law enforcement authorities used tactics of obstruction, surveillance, and intimidation of protests, creating a...

Four members of staff from Amnesty International give their perspective on the impact Russia’s occupation of Ukraine has had on their lives, and how they feel Ukraine has changed since the full-scale invasion. Anna Before the events of spring 2014, Anna lived in Donetsk, having recently graduated,...

Reacting to research issued today into 51 major companies which showed they are doing far too little to curb their greenhouse gas emissions to keep global warming within an internationally agreed target of 1.5°C this century, Amnesty International’s Climate Justice Researcher Candy Ofime said: “The...