Amnesty International

On 16 September 2026, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will give her annual State of the European Union address. Here, Caroline Hansen, EU Foreign Policy Advocate at Amnesty International, and Claudio Francavilla, Associate Director for EU Advocacy, for Human Rights Watch, write that this year’s speech must be an opportunity to make good on past...

Algeria’s authorities must immediately abandon any plans to expand the scope of the death penalty or resume executions after more than three decades without carrying one out, said Amnesty International as the government examines amendments to the penal code that would broaden the use of the death penalty. The organization calls on Algeria’s authorities to immediately establis...

Over the past decade, the conflict in Mali between the armed forces and their allies and various non-state armed groups has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their country, including to Mauritania.

Certain armed groups, in particular the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), also known as Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin ...

By Naomi Bernaldez, Campaigner on Amnesty International’s Central America team

Naomi took part in the Write for Rights campaign for Juan López and created a collage using fragments from more than 15,000 letters sent from around the world.

In this article, she reflects on what it meant to carry a sample of that solidarity to Honduras and to me...

Amnesty International welcomes the Guatemalan judiciary’s decision to close the criminal proceedings against four Indigenous authorities charged with unlawful association, terrorism, obstruction of justice, sedition and obstruction of criminal prosecution following their participation in peaceful protests during the national strike in October 2023.

The ruling concer...