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Nigeria: Authorities must quash 'appalling' flogging sentence of TikTokers

Responding to the sentencing of two TikTok celebrities - Mubarak Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad - by a court in Kano, northern Nigeria, to flogging and a fine for allegedly defaming a politician, Osai...

Northern Ireland / Qatar: Irish FA must raise human rights at Qatar World Cup

The Irish Football Association (IFA) must raise human rights concerns with FIFA and the Qatari authorities when officials travel to the country for the opening ceremony of the World Cup later this...

Italy: authorities must allow people on board refugee rescue ship to disembark

German-flagged ‘Humanity 1’ ordered to leave Sicilian port of Catania with 35 rescued people still on board ‘The law of the sea is clear: a rescue ends when all those rescued are disembarked in a...

Egypt: mass round-ups ahead of COP27

At least 151 detainees currently being investigated, while hundreds more have faced arrest and threats Detained UK-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah begins intensified hunger strike today ‘World...

UK: family vigil outside Downing St for Alaa Abd el-Fattah as hunger strike intensifies

Mona Seif holding candlelight vigil as British national begins intensified hunger strike in Egyptian jail Letter to Rishi Sunak calls on PM to raise activist’s plight at COP27 ‘The Government will...

Amnesty calls for more cuts and loss and damage fund for people whose rights are hit by climate crisis

Governments need to ensure 2030 emissions targets are in line with keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C New briefing documents the devastation being caused by the climate crisis ‘The climate...

Qatar: FIFA and Infantino must tackle human rights issues

FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s letter to all 32 World Cup nations urges ‘focus on football’ Football’s world body still hasn’t supported remediation programme for migrant workers ‘Hundreds of...

Iran: more than 760,000 people support UN investigation - new petition

Actor Nazanin Boniadi conveys demand for action at UN in New York More than 200 people have been killed in protest crackdown, including 30 children ‘The UN Human Rights Council must immediately...

France: Conviction of former Liberian rebel commander is 'justice for victims'

Kunti Kamara sentenced to life imprisonment Witnesses described killings, rape, beatings, forced labour, and torture by rebel group and Kunti Kamara The trial was the first in France involving grave...

World's biggest letter writing marathon will help 10 victims of human rights abuses get justice

Millions of letters, emails and texts will be sent to support people who have been jailed and attacked during Amnesty's annual Write for Rights campaign People across the UK can join to help 10...