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Saudi Arabia: UN should urgently review de-listing over children's rights violations

Letter from 24 NGOs sent to António Guterres ahead of debate today Last week, UN removed Saudi Arabia from report on countries violating children’s rights despite record in Yemen ‘This premature de...

Northern Ireland: Amnesty, CAJ and UNISON call for public inquiry into care home deaths

Amnesty International UK, the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) and UNISON are calling for a public inquiry into the handling of COVID-19 in care and nursing homes in Northern Ireland...

Niger: 100-day detention of three activists highlights increasing crackdown on dissenting voices

Human rights defenders languishing in jail for organising a protest to demand an investigation into misuse of funds by Niger’s Ministry of Defence Amnesty has recorded 27 arrests of activists and...

USA: scale of police violence during Black Lives Matter protests revealed

Interactive map based on open-source research shows police violence in 80% of states Protester in Philadelphia describes police pulling down protesters’ masks, then spraying and gassing them Amnesty...

Libya: 'long overdue' UN fact-finding team welcomed

Amnesty International has welcomed a resolution from the United Nations Human Rights Council today to establish a fact-finding mission to investigate human rights violations by all parties to the...

NSO Group spyware used against Moroccan journalist - new investigation

Award-winning journalist Omar Radi was targeted with notorious Pegasus spyware days after Israel tech firm pledged to abide by human rights standards Spyware already used against numerous journalists...

'Pride Inside' online LGBTI+ festival line-up announced

Amnesty International, UK Black Pride, ParaPride, Gendered Intelligence and Stonewall are bringing Pride celebrations online this year When? Sunday 28 June – Friday 10 July 2020 Where? https:/...

Malaysia: Threat to force 269 Rohingya boat people back to sea is a 'new low'

Vessel landed at Langkawi island on 8 June, with woman’s dead body and many survivors barely able to walk Coastguard says it has pushed other boats back out to sea ‘This is an unprecedented and...

Amnesty gives cautious welcome to UK government U-turn on contact tracing app

Amnesty International UK has given a cautious welcome to news that the UK Government is planning to abandon its previous plans for a centralised COVID-19 contact tracing app in favour of a Google...

Egypt: medics arrested for speaking out over COVID-19 failings

Six doctors and two pharmacists arrested, and medics transferred to quarantine hospitals for speaking out Pregnant doctor detained after her phone used to report coronavirus case ‘The Egyptian...