Kenyan women hired as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia endure grueling, abusive and discriminatory working conditions.

NAIROBI - Kenya has lost one of its brightest legal minds, a resolute defender of justice, and a deeply principled voice in matters of national conscience. Senior Counsel Pheroze Nowrojee passed away ...

It has alarming implications for human rights and climate justice

The adoption of a political declaration on gender equality at the UN yesterday, despite relentless opposition from a handful of states, is a win for human rights. Now governments must put words into a...

The U.S. government must release Mahmoud Khalil immediately. No matter how the Trump administration tries to manipulate it, freedom of expression is a human right, not a deportable offense.

The right to seek asylum in the United States is non-existent at the U.S.-Mexico border, in violation of U.S. human rights national and international obligations.

Reacting to President Donald Trump’s comments that the USA will “take over the Gaza Strip”, advocating again for the forcible transfer of around 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “President Trump’s remarks calling for the forcible transfer of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip must be […]

Withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council shows complete and blatant disregard for human rights and international cooperation.

Governments around the world are significantly better equipped to meet their human rights obligations because of the technical and financial resources USAID provides.

The Laken Riley Act capitalizes on a horrible tragedy in order to advance President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda by scapegoating people seeking safety and stripping away their right to due process.

In response to the Trump administration’s targeted ICE enforcement in cities across the United States, Amy Fischer, Director of the Refugee and Migrant

This directive continues President Trump’s cruel pattern of creating policy based on bigotry and hate, particularly toward transgender people.

In reinstating and expanding the global gag rule, President Trump has purposely put the lives of millions of women, girls and others who can get pregnant at risk and has thrown global reproductive hea...

This announcement gives hope to Afghan women, girls, as well as those persecuted on the basis of gender identity or expression.

On the day of the U.S. presidential inauguration, Amnesty International calls on President Donald Trump and his administration to respect human rights obligations in all their policies and governing a...

Withdrawing from the WHO is a political maneuver untethered from the reality that this decision will undoubtedly harm people around the globe.