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Responding to the unprecedented escalation by the Israeli military which said it conducted the “largest coordinated wave of strikes” today attacking 100 sites across Lebanon within 10 minutes, killing and wounding hundreds Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Heba Morayef said: “Just hours after the world cautiously welcomed news of […]

Uyghur tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Ekpar Asat, who founded a media platform to help people in need, went missing in China’s Xinjiang region around 7 April 2016. He was reportedly convicted on charges of “inciting ethnic hatred and ethnic discrimination” and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Here, his sister – human rights lawyer Rayhan […]

A new investigation by Amnesty International shows that a dozen casinos in Cambodia are directly linked to scamming compounds where torture, forced labour, child labour and human trafficking have taken place. Analysis of official licensing documents issued by Cambodia’s Commercial Gambling Management Commission (CGMC) shows that casino owners are in direct control of buildings and […]

In 2024, a Belgium court ordered the government to pay reparations to five ‘Metis’ women, born of an African mother and a European father between 1948 and 1952, who were kidnapped from their mothers during the colonial-era in Belgian Congo. It was a historic ruling and Jehosheba Bennett was one of the lawyers who represented […]

Millions of football fans attending the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA risk coming face to face with troubling attacks on human rights, not least those stemming from abusive and deadly US immigration policies, Amnesty International said today. The human rights organization warned that severe restrictions on freedom of expression […]

Amnesty International is urging governments worldwide to halt the supply of weapons to Israel, following a ruling by the Danish Supreme Court that a lawsuit brought by Amnesty International Denmark and three other organisations is inadmissible. The lawsuit argued that the Danish government is violating international law by continuing to export weapons to Israel, including […]

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 […]

Amid the rapid expansion of regional hostilities across the Middle East following the ongoing joint United States-Israel attacks on Iran and the subsequent wave of Iranian retaliatory attacks across the region, Amnesty International is issuing an urgent call on all parties to protect civilians, adhere to international humanitarian law, in particular by ending unlawful attacks, […]

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By Mohamed DuarMohamed Duar is Amnesty International Australia’s Occupied Palestinian Territory Spokesperson and Deputy Chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation. He holds a Master of Human Rights from the University of Sydney. I was a speaker at the Palestine Action Group rally in Sydney earlier this month, when abhorrent scenes unfolded as people protested the […]