In 2019, the authorities tightened their control over freedom of expression, failed to uphold commitments to legislate against torture and enforced disappearances and prevailed upon shrinking the space for civil society to defend and promote human rights, Amnesty International said as the human...

Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 75 supporters of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were arrested over the weekend from various places in different parts of Oromia Regional State, as Ethiopian authorities intensify the crackdown on dissenting political views ahead of the general...

Update: The human rights activists were released at 5pm Kathmandu time Responding to the detention of more than a dozen activists –  including members and staff of Amnesty International Nepal – Amnesty International’s South Asia Director, Biraj Patnaik, said: “The Nepal authorities must immediately...

Amnesty International calls on the Thai authorities to stop instrumentalizing the legal process to intimidate and harass the leaders and members of the Future Forward party, as the country’s Constitutional Court prepares to deliver a judgment on 21 January 2020 on a judicial case that could see the...

Amnesty International is concerned by multiple reports of harassment, intimidation and attacks on human rights organisations, media outlets, and journalists in Sri Lanka. Amnesty International has received reports that the authorities carried out more than a dozen unscheduled visits to human rights...

We, the undersigned Cambodian and international civil society organizations, are deeply concerned about the proposed amendments to the Law on Trade Unions (“TUL”), as approved by the Cambodian Senate on December 9, 2019. The 10 proposed amendments to articles 3, 17, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 54, 55, and...

130 protests expected across Poland Spokesperson available at Warsaw protest A nationwide protest is planned in Poland this evening against a proposed law expected to be tabled tomorrow which will impose severe restrictions on judges’ rights to freedom of expression and association and further...

130 protests expected across Poland Spokesperson available at Warsaw protest A nationwide protest is planned in Poland this evening against a proposed law expected to be tabled tomorrow which will impose severe restrictions on judges’ rights to freedom of expression and association and further...

Amnesty International issues a joint letter urging members of the United Nations General Assembly to support resolution A/C.3/74/L.27, adopted by the General Assembly’s Third Committee on 14 November 2019, when it comes for adoption by its plenary later this month. As the situation in Iran has been...

Amnesty International has gathered detailed eyewitness testimony of the coordinated attack by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad last night, which claimed at least 20 lives and left more than 130 injured. The organization also verified footage from Baghdad that corroborated testimony of witnesses who...

Amnesty International has gathered detailed eyewitness testimony of the coordinated attack by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad last night, which claimed at least 20 lives and left more than 130 injured. The organization also verified footage from Baghdad that corroborated testimony of witnesses who...

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to seven of the states under review at the 35th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January 2020. The recommendations concern Guinea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.