On 9 July, activists Oumar Sylla (alias Fonike Mengue) and Mamadou Billo Bah were arrested by defense and security forces in Oumar Sylla’s home in Conakry, Guinea’s capital. They have since been subjected to enforced disappearance, with their whereabouts unknown. On the day of their arrest, Oumar...

In this submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Amnesty International highlights human rights concerns in care homes for older people during the Covid-19-pandemic and barriers limiting people with disabilities’ ability to live autonomous and independent lives. The...

Amnesty International urges South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir to send the National Security Service Act 2014 (Amendment) Bill 2024 back to parliament for review and significant amendment. The bill that passed parliament on 3 July 2024 risks undermining human rights and strengthening the National...

On 21 June 2024, the Huthi de facto authorities released Baha’i human rights activist Abdullah al-Olofi from over a year in arbitrary detention, yet are continuing to arbitrarily detain four other Baha’is. According to credible sources, the Huthis forced al-Olofi to sign a pledge that he would...

Three family members of political workers from the opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were forcibly disappeared in June 2024. Two brothers of PTI member Azhar Mashwani – Professors Mazhar-ul-Hassan and Zahoor-ul-Hassan – as well as Shahbaz Gill’s brother, Ghulam Shabbir, were...

On 15 May 2024, Ahmad Farhad, a Kashmiri journalist and poet, outspoken critic of enforced disappearances and known for his support for social movements, was forcibly disappeared from his home in the capital city of Pakistan, Islamabad. Two weeks later, on 29 May 2024, Ahmad resurfaced in the...

The strategy of the Mexican government to address the disappearances crisis launched in May 2023 is still much the same. As of today, the National Register of Missing and Disappeared Persons reports that 115,571 people remain disappeared or missing, but authorities are still formalizing...

On 3 June, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador met with relatives of the 43 students from the Normal Rural School of Ayotzinapa disappeared in 2014. According to the authorities, during the meeting they provided 15 documents out of 800 requested by relatives of the disappeared to the Secretary of...

At the 56th session of the UN Human Rights Council, states should act to extend the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Eritrea and step-up efforts towards accountability, including to ensure collection and preservation of evidence for future accountability processes.

On 12 June 2024, the Huthi de facto authorities released Yemeni judge Abdulwahab Mohammad Qatran after spending more than five months in arbitrary detention at the Huthi -run security and intelligence detention centre in Sana’a, Yemen. Following his arrest on 2 January 2024, the judge was subjected...

Amnesty International welcomes the report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan and reiterates the need for a concerted approach by the international community to urgently address the Taliban’s “institutionalized system of discrimination, segregation,...

Amnesty International and Chapter One Foundation are calling on the Zambian authorities to immediately end the escalating crackdown on civic space and repression of human rights including the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly and attacks against the opposition...