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Responding to statements from Pakistani officials claiming that an airstrike that hit a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul on 16 March was targeting an ammunition depot, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director, Research, said: “While the total death toll from this attack has yet to be independently verified, it’s clear that it resulted in […]

In 2018, Sylvie Njobati’s grandfather told her about a sacred ancient artefact known as Ngonnso, stolen by the Germans during the colonial period from 1884 to 1916, and donated to Berlin’s Ethnological Museum, by German Military Officer, Kurt Von Pavel. Ngonnso was seen as a cultural cornerstone for the Nso people, an ethnic group from […]

Those responsible for planning and executing an unlawful US strike on a school in Minab, Hormozgan province in Iran that killed 168 people, including over 100 children, must be held accountable, Amnesty International said today. Evidence gathered by the organization indicates that the school building was directly struck, alongside 12 other structures in an adjacent […]

For more than 60 years, Amnesty International has championed human rights, working to ensure freedom and dignity for all, and carrying the light of our iconic candle into the darkest places. Along the way, we have witnessed a profound global shift toward a society where human rights are recognised and protected. Over the past year, […]

Increasing harassment and deterioration in the health of individuals detained for exercising human rights reveals a persistent pattern of repression and authoritarian practices. Amnesty International is deeply concerned about a further escalation of arbitrary detention, illegal surveillance and harassment against relatives of prisoners of conscience and persons involved in prominent cases of state repression in […]

Myanmar’s military junta has committed widespread repression and abuse in every facet of life in the country since seizing power on February 1, 2021, Amnesty International, Fortify Rights, and Human Rights Watch said today. The military’s atrocities since the coup, which include war crimes and crimes against humanity, escalated over the past year as the […]

Australia’s youth detention system is costing billions of dollars each year while consistently failing to meet international human rights standards. Children as young as 10 are being detained in youth detention centres and police watch houses under conditions condemned by human rights experts, royal commissions and international bodies. Despite decades of evidence showing that “tough […]

In December 2025, Amnesty International Australia conducted polling to determine how Australians feel about a Human Rights Act. The results are in: Three in four Australians support the legislation of a Human Rights Act! This polling is consistent with both previous research Amnesty Australia has conducted and with polling by the Human Rights Law Centre, […]

Cyrille Traoré Ndembi, 61, is the President of the Vindoulou Residents’ Collective, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Pointe-Noire in the Republic of Congo. This retired community development specialist has been fighting to defend the residents’ right to a healthy environment since he moved there in 2019. His house is located just ten metres from […]

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