The Congolese authorities and three industrial companies have failed to respect international and national norms regarding the right to a healthy environment and other human rights.

The Republic of Congo’s coastline is the center of the country’s industrial activity. Oil – the country’s main source of revenue – is extracted and exported, as are other raw materials. Companies that recycle waste from other countries have also increased their activities in Congo.  This report...

Governments must ensure automated social protection systems are fit for purpose and do not prevent people eligible for welfare from receiving it, Amnesty International said today as it published a technical explainer on the underlying technology behind Samagra Vedika, an algorithmic system that has...

The proposed sale of Shell’s onshore oil business in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria risks worsening human rights abuses and should be blocked by the government unless a series of safeguards are put in place, a group of 40 civil society organizations including Amnesty International said...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for input to inform an expert workshop and the High Commissioner’s comprehensive study on the human rights dimension of care and support to be presented to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-eight session in 2025. This submission includes links to some...

Amnesty International welcomes the call for inputs by the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing as a Component of the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living, and on the Right to Non-discrimination in this Context, to inform his report to the General Assembly in October 2024, and for developing...

This report notes the steps taken by governments in India to assist the victims of the Bhopal tragedy and makes recommendations about actions to be taken by the various governments and companies involved. Twenty years after toxic gases leaked from a pesticide plant owned by Union Carbide...

On 26 January, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found that Palestinian civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip face a real and imminent risk of genocide. Pending its final ruling on the allegations of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel under the Genocide Convention, the Court...

By Graciela Martínez González, campaigner at Amnesty International When Honduras President Xiomara Castro took office in January 2022 with a promise to protect national parks and end open pit mining, members of communities in the municipality of Tocoa who lived in a protected area in the north of...

In response to the United Nations Security Council adoption of a compromise resolution calling for “urgent steps to immediately allow safe andunhindered and expanded humanitarian access” to Gaza and creating “the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities”, Amnesty International’s...

Governments taking part in COP28, including the fossil-fuel producing conference host, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), must take concrete and bold steps to avert the worst harms of the climate crisis, amid alarming water scarcity exacerbated by climate change, including for states in the Middle...

Climate change is harming the human rights of billions of people across the globe, with disproportionately worse impacts on individuals and groups already subjected to multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination and marginalization. In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where water is...