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Nepal: Vaccines and oxygen desperately needed amid devastating second Covid-19 wave

New Amnesty briefing calls for international community to step up support “We are currently seeing the same desperate situation play out in Nepal that we saw in India over recent months” – Yamini...

Algeria: two journalists and political opponent arrested on eve of election

Journalists Khaled Drareni and Ihsane El Kadi, and opposition leader Karim Tabbou taken into detention last night More than 200 people currently detained in connection with country’s Hirak protest...

Hungary: Orbán continues 'brazen' attack on LGBTI people

In response to news that the Hungarian government has proposed a law to ban the promotion of LGBTI and gender change issues in education and advertising, David Vig , Director of Amnesty International...

G7 summit: one billion vaccine pledge is 'drop in the ocean'

At current rates, it will take poorest countries another 50 years to vaccinate their populations ‘These leaders must climb out of the pockets of Big Pharma’ - Agnès Callamard Responding to news that...

G7 summit: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other dual-nationals held in Iran must be urgently discussed

Image of ten individuals from UK, Austria, Australia, Germany and Sweden published alongside message ‘Recognise these faces? Bring them home’ Gabriella Ratcliffe’s seventh birthday coincides with...

USA putting migrant children in 'harm's way' - new report

Biden administration summarily returning almost all unaccompanied Mexican children just hours after they seek safe haven in USA Mexico also sending children back to unsafe situations in Central...

China: 'Crimes against humanity' being committed in Xinjiang - new report

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim minorities subjected to mass internment and torture; millions more under systematised mass surveillance Harrowing new testimonies from more than 50 former camp...

Ireland: women still forced to seek abortion abroad is 'unacceptable'

Responding to statistics published today by the UK Department of Health and Social care revealing th at almost 200 women and girls were forced to travel from Ireland to access abortion services in...

Nicaragua: Oretga ensures pre-election period 'plagued by repression' as political challengers arrested

Ahead of November’s presidential elections, Daniel Ortega’s government continues repressive strategy against possible challengers Amnesty’s report highlights the Government’s tactics to deepen...

G7 Summit: Rich governments' support of big pharma monopolies 'could kill millions of people'

UK continues to oppose plans to waive Covid-19 patents and share technology Cornwall, host of this year’s summit, has administered more vaccinations than 22 African countries combined ‘The failure to...