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...
As people in Syria mark one year since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s government, Amnesty International reiterates the urgent need for Syria’s new authorities to break with the past and commit to delivering justice, truth and reparations while securing human rights for all....
As people in Syria mark one year since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad’s government, Amnesty International reiterates the urgent need for Syria’s new authorities to break with the past and commit to delivering justice, truth and reparations while securing human rights for all....
In April and September 2022, Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) human rights activists King Mwamisyo Ndungo and Elias Bizimungu, members of the movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA), were arbitrarily arrested. They were later sentenced by a military court in Goma to five years in pri...
By Boram Jang, East Asia Researcher at Amnesty International Like every schoolchild in South Korea, I was taught about the days in May 1980 when our country’s soldiers killed civilians in the Gwangju Democratic Uprising. At least 166 protesters — mostly students — were shot dead, and at th...
Widespread failings by Nepal’s law enforcement agencies in policing September’s youth-led “Gen-Z” protests resulted in unlawful killings, unnecessary and excessive use of force, and severe injuries, Amnesty International said in a new briefing. The briefing, “We went there to raise our voi...
The appalling response by Georgian authorities to allegations that prohibited toxic chemicals were used against protestors to suppress peaceful demonstrations must be met with an international investigation and a complete embargo on all policing equipment, Amnesty International said today ...
