Tag: Rights
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UN Rights Council Rejects Bad-Faith Bid to End Eritrea Scrutiny
Today the UN Human Rights Council firmly rejected Eritrea’s attempt to end scrutiny of its…
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Egypt: Egypt must urgently address human rights crisis
Amnesty International welcomes Egypt’s support for 210 out of 343 recommendations made during the fourth…
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Kazakhstan: Oral Statement on Item 6: Consideration of UPR reports, UN Human Rights Council 59th Session, 16 June-9 July 2025
Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the UN Human Rights Council during the Consideration…
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Stand with Chinese human rights lawyers and activists
In July 2015, hundreds of human rights lawyers and legal activists were targeted in China.…
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Unlawfully Detained in a Turkish Prison, Osman Kavala Still Stands up for Rights
Osman Kavala, the respected Turkish human rights defender, has been behind bars in Istanbul’s Silivri…
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Joint statement by the international legal and human rights organizations – Türkiye: Unlawful detention of lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan and escalating repression of the legal profession
The undersigned international legal and human rights non-governmental organizations strongly condemn the arbitrary detention of…
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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ON THE DRAFT GENERAL COMMENT ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS TO ACCESS TO JUSTICE AND TO AN EFFECTIVE REMEDY (GC. 27)
Amnesty International submitted these observations in response to the call for submissions on the draft…
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Italy: Oral Statement: Item 6: Consideration of UPR reports: UN Human Rights Council 59th session 16 June – 9 July
See below. The post Italy: Oral Statement: Item 6: Consideration of UPR reports: UN Human…
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US: Budget Would Benefit Wealthiest at Expense of Rights
(Washington, DC) – The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax…
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Myanmar: Amnesty International oral statement at the Fifty-ninth regular session of the UN Human Rights Council, 16 June – 9 July 2025
Oral statement delivered by Amnesty International during the interactive dialogue on the annual report of…