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...

On 29 February, Palestinian human rights defender and social worker Munther Amira was released from administrative detention at Ofer Military Prison in occupied West Bank. Munther Amira has been arbitrarily detained by Israeli forces since 18 December 2023. On 11 January 2024, an Israeli military...

Walid Daqqah is a terminally ill Palestinian prisoner who was diagnosed with a rare case of bone marrow cancer. Since 7 October 2023, Walid Daqqah has been tortured, humiliated, denied family visits and has faced further medical neglect. During this period, he was transferred to hospital twice due...

By Lisa Maracani and Josefina Salomón* There is rarely a dull day at work for Dr. Laura Gil, a Colombian gynecologist. But even for her, certain days stand out from the rest. One morning in 2022, as she walked down the main hall of one of the clinics where she works in the Colombian capital...

The governments of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe have failed to protect women participating in Informal Cross-Border Trade (ICBT) from gender-based violence and economic exploitation, which has impeded the women’s ability to exercise their human rights in the context of decent work, Amnesty...

This report notes the steps taken by governments in India to assist the victims of the Bhopal tragedy and makes recommendations about actions to be taken by the various governments and companies involved. Twenty years after toxic gases leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide...

On 26 January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Palestinian civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip face a real and imminent risk of genocide. Pending its final ruling on the allegations of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel under the Genocide Convention, the Court...

Amnesty International submits this document to the UN Human Rights Committee in advance of the review of Namibia’s third periodic report1, raising concerns of ongoing challenges faced by the LGBTI community in Namibia based on findings from a report published in January 2024 entitled ‘We are facing...

Tortured protester Abbas Deris is at grave risk of execution after the Supreme Court rejected his request for a judicial review in January 2024. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial in relation to the November 2019 nationwide protests. His lawyers have submitted a special appeal...

Amnesty International submits this document to the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in advance of the adoption of the List of Issues for Namibia in March 2024. It highlights the organization’s concerns regarding the right to health, specifically focusing on the alarming...

Ahmad Maher, a 28-year-old Yemeni journalist, who was arrested on 6 August 2022 by security forces in Aden, is on trial before the Aden-based Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) on charges of disseminating false and misleading news and forging identity documents. During interrogations at the Dar Sa’ad...