Amnesty International submits this document in response to the call for inputs to inform the next report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders to the UN General Assembly in October 2023.

Amnesty International would like to express our appreciation for the opportunity to discuss initiatives for a strengthened treaty body system and follow-up to the 2020 review. Amnesty International welcomes the thought given to ways of strengthening the Chairpersons meeting as a decision-making...

Responding to the final recommendations and report published today by the European Parliament’s PEGA committee, which urges the European Union (EU) to more tightly regulate the use, manufacture and trade of spyware, Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, Head of Amnesty International’s Security Lab, said:  “The...

Amnesty International presents this document to the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the eve of the adoption of the list of questions in the third periodic report on Honduras regarding application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The document emphasizes Amnesty...

Responding to the French National Assembly’s decision to permit the use of mass video surveillance technology powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) during the 2024 Olympics, Mher Hakobyan, Amnesty International’s Advocacy Advisor on AI Regulation, said:   “France’s decision to allow the use of...

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Oral statement during the interactive dialogue on the report of the International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela. We urge member states of this Council to support calls for the protection of Venezuelan civil society. We further call on Venezuela to provide unhindered access to the...

States have clear obligations to cooperate effectively and fairly in order to reform global taxation with the aim of mobilizing sufficient resources to meet their respective human rights obligations, address inequality, achieve the SDGs and finance a just climate transition. A key way to achieve...

This is the oral statement of Amnesty International delivered at the General debate on ITEM 2 of the UN Human Rights Council’s 52nd session from the 27 February 2023 – 4 April 2023.

GQUAL, CEJIL, Dejusticia, CELS, Red Jesuita con Migrantes (RJM-LAC), Amnesty International, Facultad de Derecho Universidad Alberto Hurtado and Centro de Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Diego Portales call for gender parity in the next composition of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights...

Honourable Committee members, We thank you for this opportunity. Amnesty International would like to highlight three main concerns raised in our written submission to the Committee about Sri Lanka’s compliance with the Covenant, namely: the crackdown on protests including the police’s use of...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned at the treatment of migrants and refugees in the Ceuta-Melilla border region by both Spanish and Moroccan police and border officials and the ongoing risk they face of serious violations of their human rights in that location.