The US government must immediately stop disregarding international refugee law and human rights law and end all deportation flights and forced returns to Venezuela, Amnesty International said today in response to the unlawful return of Venezuelan nationals from the United States to Venezuela. “Over...

The human rights crisis in Venezuela has forced millions to flee the country in search of protection abroad. As many countries close their doors to Venezuelans, Amnesty International reiterates that Venezuelan men, women, and children are still in urgent need of international protection. This...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Yemen in April-May 2024. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Yemen in its previous review, including in relation to the persecution of LGBTI persons, death penalty, women’s...

Ahead of a hearing at the General Court of the European Union, in which Frontex, the EU border agency, will be questioned over its lack of transparency in relation to its involvement in maritime interceptions and subsequent human rights abuses against refugees and migrants in Libya, Matteo de...

Amnesty International conducted research into the treatment of migrant workers contracted to Amazon’s warehouses in Saudi Arabia. As part of the research, Amnesty International contacted Amazon on two occasions to seek details about due diligence it had undertaken into third-party supply companies,...

This report documents serious human rights abuses suffered by Nepali migrant workers employed by labour supply companies and contracted to work in Amazon’s warehouses in Saudi Arabia. Many of the men interviewed for this research are highly likely to be victims of human trafficking. The report...

Responding to reports that the Government of Pakistan has ordered all unregistered Afghan refugees to leave the country by November 2023, Nadia Rahman, Amnesty International’s Interim Deputy Regional Director for research in South Asia, said: “Afghans in Pakistan are fleeing persecution by the...

This year will mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document, the result of extensive negotiations between the countries that comprised the recently created United Nations, aimed to establish a series of basic agreements to guarantee freedom,...

Responding to the news that EU leaders have agreed a position on how to deal with sudden increases in arrivals at Europe’s borders, as well as cases of so-called ‘instrumentalisation’ of migrants, that would allow EU members states to deviate from the bloc’s usual asylum and reception standards,...

Cramped on a fishing trawler, about 500 women, men and children found themselves stranded at sea just metres from dry land and safety. They had mostly fled from Eritrea before embarking on a dangerous crossing from to escape Libya. Under a moonless sky, one man lit a makeshift torch to attract...

Nagorno-Karabakh is a formerly autonomous region within Azerbaijan’s internationally recognized borders (the borders of the Azerbaijani Soviet Republic at the time of the USSR’s break-up). Its predominantly ethnic Armenian population was seeking change of the territory’s status and independence...

The European Union (EU) must ban dangerous, AI-powered technologies in the AI Act, Amnesty International said today, as the bloc aims to finalize the world’s first comprehensive AI rulebook this fall.   Numerous states across the globe have deployed unregulated AI systems to assess welfare claims,...