More than a month after a ceasefire was announced and all living Israeli hostages were released, Israeli authorities are still committing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, by continuing to deliberately inflict conditions of life calculated to bring about their physi...
Most factory workers who produce garments for the fashion industry are women. Studies show that women constitute 60-80% of the global garment workforce. This means that when we talk about protecting human rights in the garment and fashion industry, we must also specifically consider the ri...
Ashila Dandeniya: Fair worker treatment for fair fashion My first job was in the garment sector was in 2001 as a quality controller at a well-known apparel manufacturer in Colombo, Sri Lanka. I joined the sector right after completing my A-Level examinations as my family was facing financi...
Responding to the extradition of Montagnard and Ede Indigenous human rights defender Y Quynh Bdap from Thailand to Viet Nam, Amnesty International’s Thailand Researcher Chanatip Tatiyakaroonwong said: “This extradition is a grave failure of Thailand’s human rights obligations. Sending an I...
The Cuban government must put an end to institutional gender-based violence against women human rights defenders, journalists, and activists, Amnesty International said today as it launched its new report “They Want Us Silent, But We Keep Resisting: Authoritarian Practices and State Violen...
Reacting to reports that a draft US-backed peace plan to end Russia’s ongoing war of aggression in Ukraine is under intense discussion, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “The news that comes out of Ukraine every day is of constant tragedy and suffering for i...
The Nigerian authorities’ persistent failure to address the repeated abductions of school children and teachers in several parts of northern Nigeria is putting the education of a generation of children at risk, said Amnesty International, following the indefinite closure of 20,468 schools ...
Responding to news that the Tunis Court of First Instance convicted human rights defenders Mustapha Djemali and Abderrazek Krimi yesterday evening, and released them due to the time already served after they have spent more than 18 months in arbitrary detention, Deputy Regional Director fo...
Zahra Joya is an award-winning Afghan journalist and the founder of Rukhshana Media, an online news outlet reporting on the daily realities of women’s lives in Afghanistan. Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, Afghanistan has been in a downward spiral of human rights violations. Women a...
Nos débuts Depuis 2017, Amnesty International utilise l’éducation aux droits humains (EDH) pour sensibiliser et lutter contre les mutilations génitales féminines (MGF) et les mariages précoces ou forcés, dans plus de 60 communautés au Burkina Faso, au Sénégal et en Sierra Leone. En 2024, à...
