Multiple crises – including armed conflict, climate change, economic instability and inequality, and the enduring impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic – have had catastrophic consequences on people’s economic and social rights. These crises also highlight the importance of international cooperation and...

In a world facing multiple crises and increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks, the right to social security can play a critical role in protecting people from poverty and the violation of other human rights. Amnesty International joins a growing coalition of experts and civil society...

The February 2023 earthquakes in southern Türkiye – the worst in the country’s modern history – devastated entire communities. More than 48,000 people were killed and over 100,000 others were injured. Many of them lost limbs and sustained other life-changing injuries. Amnesty International examined...

Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to provide written input pertaining to the upcoming day of general discussion by the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on persons with disabilities in situations of risk and humanitarian emergencies. Over the past five years, Amnesty...

The catastrophic earthquakes that devastated southeastern Türkiye and northern Syria on 6 February and again on 20 February require a committed and sustained global humanitarian response. To date, the combined death toll is over 46,000 and climbing. Hundreds of thousands have been left homeless and...

Older people in Ukraine have been disproportionately impacted by death and injury during Russia’s invasion and are unable to access housing on an equal basis with others after being displaced, Amnesty International said in a new report today. The report, ‘I used to have a home’: Older people’s...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which has been marked by a flagrant disregard for civilian life, has had a devastating impact on older people. This report shows how older people have made up a disproportionate number of civilian deaths and injuries. It also shows how intersecting...

Olga Perekopaiko, a volunteer with Kyiv’s chat “Help to Ba and De” (short for babushka and dedushka – ‘granny’ and ‘grandpa’ in Russian) talked to Amnesty International in the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, about the ways in which Russia’s war against Ukraine has...

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory has caused decades of misery for older people, Amnesty International said in two new reports published today.  The conflict – first fought from 1988 to 1994, and then during another escalation in late 2020 – sawolder...

For three decades, over half a million Azerbaijanis who fled war with Armenia have endured the limbo of displacement. In 2020, renewed fighting resulted in Azerbaijan retaking huge swathes of territory. As the government plans for the return of hundreds of thousands of displaced people to those...