Smin Tit, Hoy Mai and Others v Mitr Phol Co. Ltd. This brief aims to assist the South Bangkok Civil Court by setting out relevant international legal principles and standards regarding States’ obligations in relation to the right to remedy and access to justice, including in the context of...

Amnesty International urges authorities to drop all charges against two peaceful protesters Nutchanon Payakaphan and Panupong Jadnok, after reports that officials have charged them under the 2005 Emergency Decree and other legislation, for protesting without official permission in Rayong on 15 July...

The authorities in Ethiopia must immediately reveal the whereabouts of dozens of politicians and journalists who were arrested alongside other people following widespread protests and violence on 29 June, Amnesty International said today. The killing of Hachalu Hundesa, a popular outspoken Oromo...

Amnesty International is calling on G20 leaders meeting this week to take unprecedented steps towards tackling the global inequalities which are fueling the COVID-19 and climate crises – two of the greatest threats to human rights of our time. G20 Finance Ministers convening on 18-19 July should...

On 30 June, China’s top legislature unanimously passed a new national security law for Hong Kong that entered into force in the territory the same day, just before midnight. The law is dangerously vague and broad: virtually anything could be deemed a threat to “national security” under its...

Speaking to the UN Security Council today, UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie cited an upcoming Amnesty International report on Yezidi child survivors of the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq. Highlighting the lack of services available for child survivors of sexual violence...

On 26 June 2020, a federal judge in the USA ordered immigration authorities to release all children from family immigration detention facilities, which the judge declared were “on fire” with COVID-19. Authorities must comply but release all families together to protect them from the pandemic while...

After being in detention since October 2019, José Daniel Ferrer García was sent to house arrest in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on April 2020, after a trial where he was convicted and sentenced to four and a half years. Although no independent monitoring or international press was allowed during his...

The Belarusian authorities must halt their crackdown on all dissent ahead of the presidential election on 9 August, and immediately end their vicious campaign of targeting women activists and family members of political opposition representatives using tactics fueled by misogyny, Amnesty...

The self-proclaimed Libyan National Army (LNA) must reveal the fate and whereabouts of Siham Sergiwa, a Libyan politician and women’s rights defender who was violently abducted from her home one year ago today, Amnesty International said. Siham Sergiwa’s case is a stark reminder of the ongoing...

Responding to the introduction of a bill to outlaw discrimination in South Korea, including against LGBTI people, Arnold Fang, East Asia Researcher of Amnesty International said: “A law to effectively protect everybody from discrimination, including LGBTI people, could make South Korea a pioneer in...

Responding to the introduction of a bill to outlaw discrimination in South Korea, including against LGBTI people, Arnold Fang, East Asia Researcher of Amnesty International said: “A law to effectively protect everybody from discrimination, including LGBTI people, could make South Korea a pioneer in...