Moussa Tchangari, a human rights defender and secretary-general of Citizens’ Alternative Spaces, faced two new charges: ...

On December 27, 2024, the Israeli military raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Mashrou’ Beit Lahiya. During the raid, they ...

Amnesty International Secretary Agnès Callamard welcomed the news of Gaza ceasefire deal but called it "bitterly overdue." ...

On December 6, following the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijani authorities arrested seven journalists ...

Authorities in Angola released Tiktoker Neth Nahara, who is featured in this year's Write for Rights campaign, along with ...

Steven Donziger is an environmental lawyer and human rights defender who stood up to the oil giant Chevron. He successfully ...

On January 6, 2025, the United States transferred 11 Yemeni men from the Guantanamo Bay military detention facility to Oman.

Carlos Correa, a prominent human rights defender and executive director of the Venezuelan NGO Espacio Público, was ...

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization ...

Violence against women, and certainly violence against Indigenous women, is rarely understood as a human rights issue. When governments, media and the general public consider violence against women, ...

Upholding the rights of women and gender-diverse people continues to be an ongoing human rights priority for Amnesty International. It will be particularly important to increase gender justice during ...

Violence against Indigenous women and girls isn’t just an Indigenous issue or a women’s issue. It is a Canadian issue and to end the violence each one of us must commit to taking action in our daily ...