In response to news reports that the U.S. Government transferred 11 men out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center and to ...

Responding to the rejection of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng’s appeal against his three-year prison sentence for ...

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Amnesty International Australia strongly opposes the call by Australia’s antisemitism envoy to ban pro-Palestinian protests from city centres. Protests advocating for a ceasefire, the protection of ...

The ongoing genocide in Gaza has exacted a devastating toll on journalists, those who risk their lives to report the truth. Among the 44,000 killed in Gaza, 138 journalists and media workers have been ...

(Dakar, Geneve, Nairobi, Paris, December 9, 2024) – Niger’s military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, as he ...

Reacting to news that the Russian State Duma has passed a bill banning migrant children who do not speak Russian from enrolling in schools, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, ...

Change starts with you. In the decades since the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, our global movement has been helping people across the world enjoy ...

Mariyia Kalesnikava is one of the 10 people Amnesty International is uniting behind for this Write for Rights 2024 – the worlds biggest human rights event. Maryia has been arbitrarily detained for ...

The Egyptian authorities must immediately put an end to the disgraceful campaign of intimidation against outspoken journalist and woman human rights defender Rasha Azab, Amnesty International said ...

The first half of the year began with a number of human rights wins, and people from across the world have continued to prove that change is possible. From amending laws, supporting people in need, to ...

Responding to the ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following the seizure of power by opposition forces in the capital city of Damascus, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty ...