The US authorities are using automated artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tools to deliberately target non-US citizens and pose risks to those who speak out for Palestinian rights, said Amnesty International, amid the country’s ongoing unlawful clampdown on migrants, refugee...
Amnesty International rejects the enactment of the law granting amnesty to perpetrators of crimes under international law and allowing for the release of persons over the age of 70 who have received a final sentence or whose sentence is being executed, under the concept of “humanitarian am...
In response to an Erbil court sentencing journalist Sherwan Sherwani to another four years and five months in prison on 19 August for an apparent threat made to a prison officer, Amnesty International’s Iraq Researcher Razaw Salihy said: “Sherwan Sherwani is already serving an unjust pri...
Both the Rwanda-backed March 23 Movement (M23) and the Wazalendo, a loose coalition of armed groups backed by the Congolese army, have gang raped women and committed widespread human rights abuses against civilians in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) that violate internationa...
Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life, Amnesty International said today as it published chilling new testimonies of starved displaced civilians. Their acc...
Ahead of the 15 August 2025 meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richard in Anchorage, Alaska, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “We urge President Trump, as the meeti...
Summary – Aakar Patel, Chair of the Board at Amnesty International India, urgently appeals to the Governor of Maharashtra to deny assent to the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill. Framed as a countermeasure to so-called “urban naxalism,” the Bill threatens constitutionally and intern...
By Deprose Muchena At the end of June, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Regional Human Rights Impact, Deprose Muchena, announced that he will leave the organization after 11 years. He reflects on the human rights situation in Ethiopia. When I joined the Amnesty movement to lead i...
The Taliban de-facto authorities must immediately put an end to the arbitrary and unfair delivery of justice by reinstating a formal constitutional and legal framework and the rule of law in accordance with Afghanistan’s international human rights obligations, Amnesty International said to...
Did you know Amnesty International launched a really good podcast last year? Now on series two, On the Side of Humanity, has just been nominated for a British Podcast of the Year Award. It’s a deserving candidate, as it tells the stories of brave activists from around the world all of whom...