This report on human rights and HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic and Guyana, highlights how human rights violations fuel the pandemic. Abuses of civil, political, cultural, economic and social rights increase people’s risk of HIV infection and those affected by HIV/AIDS are often denied...

Human rights violations fuel the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In this document Amnesty International calls on governments to: Fulfil the international commitment to the right of health; Remove funding conditions that inhibit the prevention of HIV/AIDS; Ensure equal access to treatment; Ensure access to...

Human rights violations fuel the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In this document Amnesty International calls on governments to: Fulfil the international commitment to the right of health; Remove funding conditions that inhibit the prevention of HIV/AIDS; Ensure equal access to treatment; Ensure access to...

This leaflet uses case studies to illustrate gender-specific hurdles as well as other obstacles for women human rights defenders. Whether as health care providers, legal professionals or family members, women human rights defenders (HRDs) help to improve access to essential health care services and...

This document provides details of two appeal cases. Amnesty International considers Mao Hengfeng to be a prisoner of conscience and human rights defender and is calling for her immediate and unconditional release. Amnesty International is concerned by reports that she has been repeatedly subjected...

This guide has been created as a tool for Amnesty International and other non-governmental organizations, in particular women’s groups, to campaign for national legal reform on the criminalization of violence against women that meets the highest standards of international practice. It aims to...

This publication of the International Justice Project considers crimes against women and the ICC. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Statute) is progressive in its incorporation of a gender perspective to ensure that women who are victims of the gravest crimes under international...

This paper looks at the links between violence against women and women’s health. It reviews the forms that such violence takes, including physical violence, sexual violence, psychological or emotional violence and economic or other forms of deprivation. The paper discusses the health care of...

In this document Amnesty International focuses on four of the 12 Critical Areas of Concern of the Platform for Action: Violence against women, Women and armed conflict, Women and health, and Women’s human rights. Within each of these areas, AI highlights specific situations where...

This document lists ten proposals from Amnesty International to the new EU presidency to ensure that the EU’s human rights proposals can be made more effective. Issues covered include access to justice, returns policy, asylum and arms control.

Amnesty International is calling for concerted action to address the risk of HIV in the context of violence against women. This paper reviews the current risks faced by women in the context of the HIV pandemic as well as the human rights standards which should protect women from exposure to the...

1) Fleeing xenophobia in Côte d’Ivoire 2) Indonesia’s hidden war 3) ‘We had high hopes in Accra’ 4) Where are the children who ‘disappeared’ in El Salvador and Guatemala? 5) ‘Official collusion and cover-up’ in the UK 6) Worldwide appeals: Syria:...