Nathan The White Paper Movement (and the Sitong Bridge protest a month earlier) completely changed my life. Since October 2022, my fellow activists and I have put up solidarity posters, organized rallies and candlelight vigils – I even started an independent magazine. I did many things that I never...

Responding to news that France, Germany and Italy, are putting adoption of the landmark AI Act at risk due to their opposition to regulate foundation models, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnes Callamard said:  “The EU has an opportunity to demonstrate international leadership by...

Reacting to reports that Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28, who is also the chief executive of ADNOC, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state oil and gas company, was briefed to advance the interests of the businesses he leads before dozens of bilateral meetings about the climate...

Responding to news reports that more than 100 protesters, including young people, were arrested over the weekend after demonstrating against government inaction on the climate crisis ahead of the coming COP28 summit in Dubai, Amnesty International’s Pacific researcher Kate Schuetze said:  “While it...

In advance of the 14th session of the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Ageing (OEWGA) in 2024, the co-facilitators of an intersessional working group of OEWGA sent a questionnaire to member states, national human rights institutions, and non-governmental organizations with ECOSOC status regarding...

People who are defending the right to abortion and providing essential services are being stigmatized, intimidated, attacked and subjected to unjust prosecutions, making their work increasingly difficult and dangerous to carry out, said Amnesty International in a new report out today. The report,...

Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist, was abducted by security officers in Russian-occupied Crimea in April 2022 and sentenced to seven years imprisonment following an unfair trial. She has been denied access to the healthcare she required for acute ear pain. She was recently...

Around the world, those defending abortion rights are under attack, including activists, advocates, educators, clinic escorts, accompaniers, doulas, and healthcare workers. They are exposed to stigmatization, physical and verbal attacks, intimidation and threats, and are criminalized through unjust...

This document provides a summary of the Amnesty International report ‘An unstoppable movement’ (POL 40/7420/2023) which provides an overview of how Women Human Rights Defenders who defend the right to abortion are attacked worldwide. These attacks are not just a violation of the state obligation to...

This paper sets out Amnesty International’s key recommendations for the twenty-second session of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (‘ASP’) which we urge all states parties to consider and the Assembly to address. The recommendations focus on the plenary debates on the Assembly’s...

By Clara del Campo, South America Campaigner for Amnesty International Three years ago, at 3 a.m. on 14 November 2020, agents of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence entered Guillermo Zárraga’s home and arbitrarily detained him, viewing him as a threat to the interests of Nicolás...

As the realities of climate change become ever more real – wildfires, droughts, extreme temperatures, flooding – the calls for a complete phase out of fossil fuels are more urgent than ever.   But climate change isn’t the only downside to humanity’s addiction to coal, gas and oil. Burning fossil...