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Four months after calling on Pakistan’s authorities to explain how and why they targeted a Kabul drug rehabilitation centre on 16 March, killing at least 269 civilians, Amnesty International has published a new investigation calling for the attack to be investigated as a possible war crime. The organization found no evidence to support the Pakistan […]

Responding to the crackdown on protestors in New Delhi demanding accountability in the Indian education system, Aakar Patel, Amnesty International India’s Chair of Board, said, “The images and reports emerging from the protest at Jantar Mantar show how peaceful dissent is being suppressed in India. The police reportedly used unnecessary and excessive force against peaceful […]

What began as a temporary measure allegedly to combat gang violence has evolved into a permanent system that promotes and justifies mass arbitrary detentions, the suspension of guarantees, and serious human rights violations that could amount to crimes against humanity. These are the conclusions reached by Amnesty International in its new report “Security” without rights: […]

The widespread use of risk profiling systems by public authorities in law enforcement, social security and migration is incompatible with international human rights law and must be banned, Amnesty International said in a new report which includes Australia’s Robodebt Scheme as an example. Risk profiling is the assessment of whether a person or group is […]

Companies are extracting vast troves of online data through unlawful web scraping to build their generative artificial intelligence (AI) products in a way that is enabling a mass invasion of privacy, making these systems unlawful by design, Amnesty International said in a new briefing today. Unlawful by Design: Exposing the Human Rights Costs of Generative […]

One year on from the deadly US air strike on a Huthi-run migrant detention centre in Sa’ada, north-western Yemen, there has been no discernible progress towards justice and reparation, and survivors are still struggling with severe physical and psychological trauma, Amnesty International said today. The organization had called for the 28 April 2025 strike by […]

Fijian authorities have announced that a man, Jone Vakarisi, died in military custody at an Australian-linked base on 17 April. Australia and Fiji have an agreement under the Vuvale Agreement that includes “cooperation between the Australian and Fijian defence forces, police forces and border security agencies”. Responding to the Fijian authorities’ announcement, Amnesty International’s Pacific […]

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 156 people, including 120 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 Islamic […]