Following the banning of a number of demonstrations protesting police violence after the unlawful killing of 17-year-old Nahel M by a police officer, Amnesty International is calling for the French government to prioritise the wholesale reform of rules governing the use of firearms and lethal force...

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

The surveillance-based business models of Big Tech companies such as Google and Meta are the root cause of harmful content proliferation on their platforms. This business model is based on algorithms that amplify hateful and harmful content, which can create echo chambers of hateful content that...

Our NGO coalition welcomes the engagement of Switzerland with the UPR in an overall constructive spirit of using the UPR to improve the human rights situation in the country. However, we regret that on several key human rights challenges, federal and cantonal authorities failed to engage in a...

Responding to the decision today from the Conseil d’État, which ruled that the French Football Federation (FFF) does not need to change its discriminatory policy that effectively prohibits Muslim women players who wear a headscarf from participating in competitive football matches, Anna Blus,...

On 28 June 2023, Amnesty International filed written submissions to the European Court of Human Rights in the case of CCIF v France. Amnesty International’s submission is motivated by a longstanding concern that freedom of association is subject to excessive restriction in many country contexts,...

The Human Rights Council should urgently address the deterioration of the human rights situation in Tunisia, four human rights organizations said today as the 53rd Council’s session is underway. In a letter sent to UN Member States’ Representatives on 5 June 2023, the undersigned organizations...

Families of the dead and missing are trapped in limbo as their attempts to find out what happened to their loved ones and efforts to ensure justice, truth and reparation are being impeded in an apparent cover up by Spanish and Moroccan authorities, said Amnesty International on the eve of the first...

States across the Americas must put an immediate end to the anti-Black discrimination, including race-based torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, against Haitian people seeking safety and international protection, said Amnesty International on World Refugee Day. “Racist migration...

An oral statement on Item 2: Interactive Dialogue with the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, delivered during UN Human Rights Council, 53d session.

States in the Americas must address the closure of civic space in the region, end repressive policies and respond to the social demands of the population of the region, said Amnesty International today in an open letter to heads of state attending the 53rd General Assembly of the Organization of...

The European Parliament must use a plenary vote cementing its final position on the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) to ban racist and discriminatory profiling systems that target migrants and other marginalized groups, Amnesty International said today, ahead of the vote on 14...