Evacuation warnings issued by the Israeli military to residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut and south Lebanon were inadequate, and in some cases also misleading, said Amnesty International today, highlighting that these warnings do not absolve Israel of its obligations under international...

Responding to the resolution on Sri Lanka adopted yesterday at the 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which extends the mandate of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) including the Sri Lanka Accountability Project by one year, Babu Ram Pant, Deputy...

Responding to the resolution on Afghanistan adopted yesterday at the 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), which extended the vital mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan but yet again failed to establish an independent international accountability mechanism...

Myanmar’s military authorities must immediately account for the whereabouts and wellbeing of two pro-democracy activists arrested in Yangon on Wednesday, Amnesty International said today. Paing Phyo Min and Shein Wai Aung were arrested on 9 October and sent to an interrogation centre, Amnesty...

Three sub-Saharan African countries on the cusp of abolition must act now and abolish the death penalty once and for all, paving the way for others around the world to follow in their footsteps, said Amnesty International on World Day Against the Death Penalty (10 October). Kenya and Zimbabwe...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt in January 2025. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Egypt in its previous UPR, including in relation to the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful...

On 9 October the Congress approved the so-called #LeyGarrote that endangers the work for human rights in Paraguay. The bill includes overly broad and ambiguous wordings that increase the control over the work of civil society organisations and result in arbitrary restrictions. We call the President...

The undersigned organizations are horrified by the soaring number of executions in Saudi Arabia. According to data from the Saudi Press Agency, the authorities executed at least 200 individuals in the first nine months of 2024 alone, more than the number of executions for any whole year in the past...

We address this open letter to President Santiago Peña to make him aware of Amnesty International’s concerns about the approval in the National Congress of a bill that contravenes the right to freedom of association and would impose serious restrictions on civil society organizations. Amnesty...

UN Member States should support a resolution to promptly begin formal negotiations of a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity, with the aim of strengthening the international justice framework and vastly reducing safe havens from investigation and prosecution for...