Authorities in Nepal are failing to protect Dalits, particularly women and girls, from systemic and widespread caste-based discrimination. This report documents the experience of systemic caste-based discrimination in Nepal and the challenges they face in accessing justice as the Nepali...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for input to inform an expert workshop and the High Commissioner’s comprehensive study on the human rights dimension of care and support to be presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-eight session in 2025. This submission includes links to some...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, and on the Right to Non-discrimination in this Context, to inform his report to the General Assembly in October 2024, and for developing...

This submission, coordinated by the Global Alliance for Tax Justice (GATJ) with the support of the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) and signed by over 175 civil society organizations – including Amnesty International – and trade unions, is a joint response to the call for inputs...

Thousands of people in the northern city of Tripoli are living in unsafe buildings that pose a risk to their right to adequate housing and right to life amid government indifference more than one year after the devastating earthquakes that ravaged large parts of Turkey and Syria and damaged...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for information by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for a panel discussion on “the challenges and good practices to strengthen the fulfilment of the right to social security and for building, financing and implementing...

Poverty wages, repression of protests and inadequate compensation for occupational injuries and deaths severely threaten workers’ rights

Governments taking part in COP28, including the fossil-fuel producing conference host, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), must take concrete and bold steps to avert the worst harms of the climate crisis, amid alarming water scarcity exacerbated by climate change, including for states in the Middle...

Introducing technology in social protection systems is often portrayed as a way to improve people’s access to services and increase efficiency. Yet, as the example of the Social Card registry in Serbia shows, introducing automation into an already inadequate social security landscape without first...

Amnesty International welcomes the adoption at the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 22 November of the resolution on international tax cooperation as an important step in the much-needed reform of the global tax system, and reiterates its call, and that of...

In this joint letter, 212 civil society organizations and trade unions express strong support and welcome the United Nations General Assembly Draft Resolution on Promotion of Inclusive and Effective International Tax Cooperation at the UN (A/C.2/78/L.18). They also commend the Africa Group for its...