Nomsa Sizani, a human rights defender and former General Secretary of the Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM), is facing imminent threats to her life. The threats followed her allegedly questioning government officials who were in the community on 17 March, to speak about a development taking place there....

Memories of life before war in Sudan Its been one year of conflict in Sudan. The people of Sudan feel forgotten as their country falls into a rampant spiral of violence and suffering. Life for many people in the country is no longer the same.

One year since the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in Sudan, the response from the international community has remained woefully inadequate even as the civilian death toll rises in the country, Amnesty International, Sudan Democracy First...

Amnesty International submits the following information to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ahead of the 88th session and the review of Brazil’s 8-9th combined periodic report under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women...

The girls who are rebuilding their lives I am one of the abducted Chibok girls. It was painful to be separated from my parents. My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls. We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force […]

Amnesty International is urging shareholders in the US-based Dow to consider withdrawing their investment from the chemicals company if it fails to rapidly meet its human rights responsibilities towards the more than 500,000 people still suffering from the Bhopal disaster, one of the world’s worst...

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...

This document contains the recommendations that Amnesty International suggests to the government of the Dominican Republic in the framework of the Universal Periodic Review 2024.

Amnesty International welcomes the call by the UN Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances and wastes (Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights) ahead of the report on gender and toxics. In this...

Ahead of the expected announcement that Saudi Arabia will be appointed chair of the UN women’s rights forum at the annual meeting of the UN Commission of the Status of Women today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Advocacy, Sherine Tadros, said: “The Commission on the Status of Women has...

By Camila Ruiz Segovia, Guillermo Rodriguez García and Naomi Bernaldez Today, 8th March, International Women’s Day, Amnesty International acknowledges the struggle and reporting of seven individuals and collectives defending gender justice and diversity in the Americas. As part of our regional...

Oral statement at Item 6 Consideration of UPR reports: Turkmenistan at the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council from 29 February to 5 April 2024.