Lawyers representing petitioners in the case against Meta speaking outside court.

Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the UN Human Rights Council during the General Debate on Item 3 (Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development). The statement focuses on the rights of...

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Responding to the Israeli authorities’ raid on Al Jazeera’s Ramallah office and a court order mandating its closure for 45 days Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:   “The Israeli authorities’ shutdown of Al Jazeera’s office in Ramallah...

Uncertainty and human rights violations for Dominicans of Haitian descent By: Elena Lorac, co-coordinator of Movimiento Reconocido It was September 2013. I had managed to get accepted into university, but I still needed the identity card that would actually allow me to take classes. Then in the...

In response to record fires across South America, with several millions of hectares burning across the Amazon basin and the entire continent, Amnesty International today published an Open Letter addressed to the presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru calling...

Academics Igbal Abilov and Bahruz Samadov were arrested on fabricated charges including “high treason” in retaliation of their academic writings and activism. Both remain in custody and are not allowed visitors or communication with their families. If found guilty they face lengthy prison terms of...

The United States (US) should urgently provide humanitarian aid to at least 8,000 displaced Syrians stranded in the besieged, isolated Rukban camp under US de facto control on Syria’s border with Jordan and Iraq without access to sufficient food, clean water or healthcare, Amnesty International...

August and September 2024 have seen record fires across South America, with several millions of hectares burning not only in rainforests of the Amazon basin. The world is watching and cannot wait for the Amazon basin and other precious ecosystems in the continent to be saved from extinction. South...

This submission has been prepared by Amnesty International in advance of the UN Human Rights Committee’s review of France’s sixth periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the ICCPR). This submission focuses on France’s obligation to respect and ensure racial...

This submission has been prepared in advance of the review of Iceland’s sixth periodic report on the implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Covenant) by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) in September 2024.

Amnesty International is submitting the following information to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (hereinafter “the Committee”) ahead of the third periodic report of the government of the Republic of Poland (hereinafter “Poland”) at the Committee’s 76th session in September...