Ecuador: One year into his term, president Noboa must avoid abuses and...
On the eve of President Daniel Noboa’s first year in office, the evidence suggests that human rights have suffered under the current administration, Amnesty International said today in a briefing...
View ArticleBrazil: The jury trial in the case of Marielle and Anderson may be a response...
For the organization, the trial of the perpetrators is an important step, although there is a long way to full justiceMore than six years after the murder of councilwoman Marielle Franco and her...
View ArticlePeru: Victims of lethal state repression commence international delegation,...
Two family members of the victims of the lethal state repression of 2022-2023 protests in Peru will travel to Europe to meet with international leaders to raise their concerns about the lack of justice...
View ArticleVenezuela: Torture, arbitrary detention and abuse of dozens of children must...
Amnesty International published new research today exposing the arbitrary detention, torture, ill treatment, and gross violations of the right to a fair trial of six children in Venezuela committed...
View ArticleColombia: The tortuous path of women searching for the victims of enforced...
According to official figures, the number of victims of enforced disappearance in Colombia could be more than 200 000. And it is mostly women who dedicate their lives to searching for them....
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Amnesty International launches letter-writing campaign to fight injustice as...
Amnesty International will launch its annual global letter-writing campaign on 10 December (Human Rights Day) to fight injustice and support people whose human rights are under threat at a time when...
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“I was injured, but they can never take my life.”
It has been two years since more than 1,400 people were injured in different regions of Peru by bullets, pellets, and tear gas fired by the police and the army during protests in different regions of...
View ArticleHaiti: Justice and protection must follow reports of mass killing in Cité Soleil
Amnesty International condemns the reports of mass killings that occurred between 6 and 7 December in the Wharf Jérémie neighborhood in Cité Soleil; the gang attack resulted in the deaths of 180...
View ArticleNicaragua: Ortega’s repressive machinery continues to stifle any dissent
Brooklyn Rivera designated a prisoner of conscience Public statement on a year ending with systematic repressionAmnesty International has today designated Brooklyn Rivera, a leader of the Miskito...
View ArticleGlobal: UN member states move closer to rejecting death penalty as lawful...
In a landmark vote, more than two thirds of the UN membership have supported the UN call for the establishment of a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty. The vote took...
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El Salvador: A thousand days into the state of emergency. “Security” at the...
Grave human rights violations under El Salvador’s state of emergency point to a systematic, widespread pattern of state abuse that has seen thousands of arbitrary detentions, the adoption of a policy...
View ArticleEl Salvador: IACtHR advances reproductive justice with ruling in favor of...
On December 20, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) condemned the Salvadoran state in the case of Beatriz and others. Beatriz was a young Salvadoran mother who experienced a pregnancy...
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