Responding to the Israeli military’s orders for over 100,000 residents, most of whom are internally displaced, to “evacuate” whole neighbourhoods in Eastern Rafah amid news its military operations in the area are already underway, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of...

Two strikes that killed 23 civilians during Somali military operations supported by Turkish drones must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said today. Civilians killed in the strikes on 18 March 2024 included 14 children, five women and four men. Another 17 civilians were injured...

Guatemala, Mexico City, Geneva, Johannesburg, San José, Washington DC – May 6, 2024. The second trial against the former head of the Office of the Special Prosecutor against Impunity (FECI) in Quetzaltenango, Lilian Virginia Laparra Rivas, will open on Monday May 6. The Public Prosecutor (MP) and...

Paraguay’s Bill of Health report analyses the right to health in Paraguay from the perspective of the status of its public health system. Following international standards for access to health services, the report examines the gaps in access to health services. It focuses on the dimensions of...

On 9 January 2024 Saudi Arabia’s infamous Specialized Criminal Court sentenced Manahel al-Otaibi, a 29-year-old fitness instructor and women’s rights activist, to 11 years in prison for “terrorist offences” in a secret trial. She was arrested on 16 November 2022 and charged with violating the...

Since at least 24 April, prisons authorities halted the provision of food and medication for detainees in five of the major prisons in Ecuador. On 2 May, a judge ordered the Ministry of Economy and Finance to transfer to the National Service for Integral Attention of People Deprived of Liberty the...

Two months after the 14-year-old climate activist Leonela Moncayo and her family suffered an explosion outside of their home, the authorities have not effectively investigated what happened and are conditioning her protection and that of the other eight girls, and their families, on stopping their...

El Salvador’s human rights situation has deteriorated alarmingly over the last five years, especially in the area of civil and political rights. Against this backdrop and in response to the recent amendment of article 248 of the country’s Constitution, a change that limits people’s right to...

Artists from Cali and Colombia’s Pacific region collaborated on the track Pum! Cayó [Bam! They Dropped], which was released on Sunday, April 28th to mark the third anniversary of the mass protests of the 2021 National Strike, in which the National Police shot and killed at least three people and...

Authorities in Bahrain must immediately drop the charges against Ali Husain al-Hajee, a human rights activist who was released in June 2023 after serving a 10-year sentence for organizing and participating in peaceful protests, then re-arrested on spurious charges five months later, said Amnesty...