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...

Ahead of the European Parliament’s final vote on the European Union (EU) Pact on Migration and Asylum on 10 April, Amnesty International warns that these reforms will put people at heightened risk of human rights violations. “It is clearer than ever that this EU Pact on Migration and Asylum will...

Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the concept paper for the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Migrants Workers and their Families Joint General Comment/Recommendation on Obligations of State...

This document contains the recommendations that Amnesty International suggests to the government of the Dominican Republic in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review 2024.

In an open letter addressed to the president of the Dominican Republic and other state institutions, Amnesty International, together with local human rights organizations, has called for an end to human rights violations against Haitians, Dominicans of Haitian descent and Black people in the...

Amnesty International along with other organizations urgently calls on President Luis Abinader and other relevant authorities, in the context of alarming racist practices and policies against Haitians in mobility, Dominicans of Haitian descent and activists. It strongly urges Dominican authorities...

Item 10: Interactive Dialogue with the High Commissioner HC on Haiti, with the participation of Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Haiti.

Exposing the reality of repression in Saudi Arabia Under the leadership of Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, the authorities are spending billions of dollars on an image rehabilitation campaign to clean up Saudi Arabia’s reputation on the world stage.   The Saudi Arabian...

Ahead of the European Union’s (EU) leaders meeting with the Egyptian president in Cairo (17 March 2024), Amnesty International called for all leaders to ensure that respect for human rights is at the centre of all ties between the EU and Egypt. “As EU leaders seek to strengthen their ties with...

This briefing to the UN Committee against Torture sets out Amnesty’s concerns with regard to statute of limitations for the crime of torture; violence against women; the treatment of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants; rehabilitation of survivors of torture; admissibility of evidence obtained...

By Boram Jang, East Asia Researcher at Amnesty International When Wishma Sandamali travelled from her native Sri Lanka to Japan shortly before her 30th birthday, she arrived with a dream of a new life teaching English. Less than four years later, on March 6, 2021, Wishma died in an immigration...

Reacting to the prosecutor’s recognition that charges against the Iuventa ship’s crew members should be dropped, Elisa De Pieri, Amnesty International’s Regional Researcher, said: “We welcome today’s positive news that the Trapani court Prosecutor has requested the dismissal of the case against all...