A year after the enforced disappearance of Steven Medina, Nehemías Arboleda, Josué Arroyo and Ismael Arroyo, their relatives continue to demand justice, truth and reparation. The “four children from Las Malvinas”, as they have become publicly known, were detained on8 December 2024 by memb...
Responding to a new Australian law prohibiting children and young people under 16 from using social media, Damini Satija, Programme Director at Amnesty Tech said: “A ban is an ineffective quick fix that’s out of step with the realities of a generation that lives both on and offline. The m...
Mhamed Hali is a Sahrawi lawyer and human rights defender living and working in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. He is a Doctor of Law and International Humanitarian Law, and Secretary General of the Association for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Jails. From a y...
With the widespread use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making systems (ADMs) that impact our everyday lives, it is crucial that rights defenders, activists and communities are equipped to shed light on the serious implications these systems have on our human rights,...
Indonesia: Police beat protesters and unlawfully used tear gas to crush protests – new investigation
Indonesian police used unlawful force against protesters, including beatings and the improper use of water cannon and tear gas grenades, during mass demonstrations that swept the country earlier this year, according to new investigation released today by Amnesty International. Thirty-six v...
Utilizing the International Human Rights Legal framework enables harms from digital systems to be situated within clear human rights language and opens up the possibility to challenge states based on binding legal provisions to which they are party. When states deploy AI systems in the pro...
Responding to reports of renewed armed clashes along the border of Cambodia and Thailand on Monday, Amnesty International’s Regional Research Director Montse Ferrer said: “The resumption of hostilities around the Thailand/Cambodia border risks civilian lives, mass displacement and the dest...
Tanzanian authorities must respect and protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression during planned nationwide protests on 9 December 2025, and guarantee that the protests are facilitated and protected, Amnesty International said today. “Police must refrain from violati...
Responding to EU home affairs ministers’ position on the EU Return Regulation agreed in Brussels today, Olivia Sundberg Diez, EU Advocate on Migration and Asylum at Amnesty International, said: “EU ministers’ position on the Return Regulation reveals the EU’s dogged and misguided insistenc...
By Mandipa Machacha and Tsidi Leatswe When Tadala Zindawa**, (21) from Tata village in Lilongwe’s Chitukula area, fell pregnant while in secondary school, she was overcome by fear and panic. Scared of her parents’ disapproval and with abortion criminalized in Malawi, Tadala resorted to uns...