Ethiopia has experienced marked human rights progress since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in April 2018. The government released prisoners of conscience, initiated reform of repressive laws, shut a prison renowned for torture, and arrested and charged former officials suspected of human...

In this submission Amnesty International evaluates implementation of recommendations made in Bolivia’s previous Universal Periodic Review, including in relation to the Truth Commission established to investigate serious human rights violations committed under previous military governments, sexual...

We, the undersigned human rights organizations, are writing to urge you to support the adoption of a resolution at the upcoming 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council to maintain a monitoring and reporting mandate on the human rights situation in Eritrea. The human rights situation in Eritrea...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Kazakhstan in November 2019. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Kazakhstan in its previous UPR, including in relation to freedom of expression, torture and other Ill-treatment,...

Mauritania has taken some steps to strengthen human rights guarantees. Despite this, the Mauritanian authorities regularly undermine human rights and there is prevailing impunity for past human rights violations, including violations of the right to life, excessive use of force, acts of torture and...

It is one of the most iconic moments in the fight for freedom in recent history.  A lone man, holding a shopping bag in each hand, stands defiantly in front of a row of mighty military tanks close to Beijing’s monumental Tiananmen Square. Then, with cameras capturing the moment for broadcast around...

In July the Human Rights Committee will review the human rights situation in Nigeria in the absence of a report 23 years after its first review. In this submission, Amnesty International sets out its concerns in relation to the national human rights frameworks, discrimination against LGBT...

The European elections are over and now the real work begins for our new MEPs. The new cohort take their seats at a time of great turbulence both in Europe and globally. Leaders are spreading hate and fear, politicians are cracking down on peaceful activists, and powerful people are pushing for...

11 Saudi women activists on trial before the Criminal Court in Riyadh risk being sentenced to prison terms on charges related to their women’s rights activism. Many of them have campaigned against the long-standing ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia, and the end of the male guardianship system....

According to official statistics, since the beginning of the cycle of protests of the so-called “Yellow Vests” in November 2018, more than 2,200 protesters and 1,500 law enforcement officials have suffered injuries in the context of demonstrations. In March 2019, the IGPN (Inspection Générale de la...

At least four people have been killed, more than 200 injured and 205 arrested during state repression of protests across Venezuela since 30 April, Amnesty International has confirmed. “The security forces under the command of Nicolás Maduro and the armed civilian groups that support him insist on...

At least four people have been killed, more than 200 injured and 205 arrested during state repression of protests across Venezuela since 30 April, Amnesty International has confirmed. “The security forces under the command of Nicolás Maduro and the armed civilian groups that support him insist on...