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Old and New Challenges for the Human Rights Council as It Turns 20
The Council holds higher status than its predecessor as a subsidiary body of the UN General Assembly. It meets in three regular sessions a year,…
Hate Speech: The First Step Towards Dehumanisation
The digital environment has made containment vastly harder. Algorithms reward outrage and division, incentivising falsehood and promoting violence, while anonymity online shields perpetrators from accountability.…
Honduras: A Community Loses Ground to the Sea
Homes and businesses have been rebuilt and destroyed multiple times over. “We lived happily before I lost my house and my business to the storm…
United States: The Closure of Alligator Alcatraz
In a report published in December 2025, Amnesty International documented serious allegations of abuse, including the use of a small metal cage as a form…
Anatomy Of a Crackdown: How Georgia’s Government Learned to Silence Dissent
The reintroduction of the foreign influence law in April 2024 triggered mass protests that were met with a brutal response, including beatings, tear gas, water…
Drawing Red Lines: How OpenAI Answers Amnesty on AI And Warfare
For its work with the US Department of War, OpenAI describes three specific red lines written into its agreement: no use of its technology for…
In Malawi, Being Albino Still Means Living with Fear
The report’s authors say implementation remains weak, with many employers and even some officials unaware of the law’s requirements. “People with albinism in Malawi do…
Child Labour, the ICC, and Food Security in Egypt
This year’s theme, Red Card to Child Labour: Fair Play for Children, Decent Work for Adults, is backed by the recently adopted Marrakech Global Framework…
Slow Progress: Twenty Years of Disability Rights
Only 28 per cent of people with significant disabilities have access to social protection benefits globally, while on average households with a person with a…
Pope Leo XIV Uses Spain Visit to Warn of a World in Crisis
Much of the address was devoted to migration. The pontiff, who is the first American to hold the office, has already clashed with the Trump…
Cambodia’s Scam Crackdown and the Victims It Left Behind
Amnesty International’s researchers, who visited 75 of the 86 compounds they had by then identified across the country, found a very different picture. Evidence of…
Peacekeeping on the Frontline in the Central African Republic
The operation in Zémio was one moment in a mission that encompasses far more than armed confrontation. In the west of the country, where the…
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