LONDON: Greece must address its responsibilities over the capsizing of a migrant vessel last year that led to the deaths of more than 600 people, Amnesty International said ahead of its participation in a European Parliament committee on Wednesday to discuss the sinking of the
NEW DELHI: India is exploiting recommendations by a global money-laundering watchdog as a “draconian” tool to shutter civil society groups and suppress activists and critics, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Government critics within civil society organizations and the media have long complained of harassment in the world’s
Kabul: Two top rights groups on Friday slammed the severe restrictions imposed on women and girls by the Taliban in Afghanistan as gender-based persecution, which is a crime against humanity. In a new report, Amnesty International and the International Commission for Jurists, or ICJ, underscored how
London: BBC football commentator Gary Lineker has received a Sport and Human Rights Award from Amnesty International alongside Natali Shaheen, the first Palestinian footballer to play professionally in Europe. Lineker received the prize for “his strong commitment to immigration and human rights issues” after criticizing the
London: Amnesty International UK has written to the House of Lords urging its members to reject a bill on illegal immigration which it slammed as “racist and xenophobic.” The letter was sent ahead of the second reading of the bill on Wednesday. The organization’s UK chief executive
New Delhi: Amnesty International India has responded to the ongoing demolition of homes and businesses in parts of Kashmir that started on February 5 demanding it is stopped immediately. Amnesty International has pointed out numerous demolitions only taking place in Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslims-majority
New Delhi: Global human rights body, Amnesty International has said the raids by India’s Income Tax department officials on the BBC’s office in New Delhi and Mumbai are an ‘affront to free speech’. Aakar Patel, Chair of Amnesty International India’s Board, in a statement said, the
New York: Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention center, where the United States has detained nearly 780 Muslim men without charge or trial over the years. Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas director, said: “It’s tragic that 21 years after
London: Ahead of India’s fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations Human Rights Council today(Thursday), Amnesty International UN Member States to peer review India’s human rights records and to hold the country accountable for its abuses and violations.
London: Authorities in Latvia have “brutally treated” refugees and migrants trying to cross the Belarus border, Amnesty International reported, warning that human rights violations have been committed, including arbitrary detention and torture. Amnesty interviewed several Iraqi migrants who said they were subjected to violence, including beatings