Meaningful policing reform and overdue reckoning with systemic racism in law enforcement urgently needed in response to public anger

This briefing examines pregnant and breast-feeding women’s access to nutrition amidst the ongoing economic crisis in Sri Lanka. Women’s purchasing power has reduced due to the increased cost of food and government funded programs to uplift maternal nutrition have been impacted. This has resulted in...

Ahead of an appeal hearing on Thursday (13 July 2023) for Truong Van Dung, a human rights defender who was convicted for “propaganda against the government” and sentenced to six years in March 2023 solely for freely expressing his views, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director of Campaigns...

Amnesty International is alarmed at the continued and unabated violence that is taking place between ethnic groups in the North-Eastern state of Manipur, India and the inability of the Indian authorities to protect human rights in the region. Since the start of the ethnic violence on 3 May, more...

In this submission, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Nigeria in its previous UPR in 2018, including in relation to enforced disappearances, human rights violations by the security forces, torture and other ill-treatment, gender-based violence and gender...

Johnny Johnson, a 45-year-old man long diagnosed with severe mental disabilities, including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, is scheduled to be executed in Missouri on 1 August 2023 for the 2002 murder of a six-year-old girl. His lawyers have presented the findings of a neuropsychiatrist...

Nasta (Anastasia) Loika was sentenced to 7 years in a penal colony for “inciting racial, national, religious or other social enmity or discord” on 20 June 2023. She is a prisoner of conscience, targeted in retaliation for her human rights work.

Responding to reports that a Spanish investigation into Israeli company NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, that had allegedly targeted the phones of Spain’s Prime Minister and other ministers, has faltered due to a ‘lack of cooperation’ from Israel, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of the Security Lab at...