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Amnesty International warns of global human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends

The Trump administration’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging harmful trends already present, gutting international human rights protections and endangering billions across the planet, Amnesty International warned today upon launching its annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights. This “Trump effect” has compounded the damage done by other world leaders throughout 2024, eating away at…

April 28, 2025

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 2024/2025

April 28, 2025

News

Death penalty in 2024 – Facts and figures

Global Figure Global executions Violating international law Global death sentences Abolishing the death penalty Regional Analysis Americas Asia-Pacific Europe and Central Asia The Middle East and North Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Reading More Global: Recorded executions hit their highest figure since 2015 Download Death Sentences and Executions 2024

April 10, 2025

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Global: Recorded executions hit their highest figure since 2015

Global executions hit their highest figure since 2015, as over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024, said Amnesty International today as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty. According to the report, Death Sentences and Executions 2024, 1,518 executions were recorded in 2024 – the highest…

April 10, 2025

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World

Human Rights Defenders and Activists

What do the Trump administration’s sanctions on the ICC mean for justice and human rights?

On 6 February 2025, United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This Executive Order is intended to stop the ICC from undertaking its independent mandate. It also poses a significant threat to the ICC and its staff. UN experts strongly condemned the move,…

March 25, 2025

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World

What do the Trump administration’s sanctions on the ICC mean for justice and human rights?

On 6 February 2025, United States President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order authorizing sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. This Executive Order is intended to stop the ICC from undertaking its independent mandate. It also poses a significant threat to the ICC and its staff. UN experts strongly condemned the move,…

March 25, 2025

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Southeast Asia

Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Myanmar: Recklessly abrupt US aid stoppage poses existential threat to human rights

The United States government’s abrupt and sweeping freeze on foreign aid is severely imperiling the human rights of refugees, civilians in armed conflict areas and individuals fleeing persecution in Myanmar, Amnesty International said today. The organization warned that lives could be lost unless the decision is urgently reversed, amended or if waivers for life-saving assistance…

March 11, 2025

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Southeast Asia

Torture and other ill-treatment

Philippines: Former President Duterte’s arrest a monumental step for justice

Responding to news that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested by Philippine authorities on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against him for the crime against humanity of murder in relation to killings in the “war on drugs”, Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said:…

March 11, 2025

Climate Change

Powerful decision-makers, from heads of state to oil company CEOs, want us to believe that the future of our planet is in our hands. They want us to believe that if we recycle enough or stop using single-use plastic, then we can stop the climate crisis and the human rights violations it entails. They want…

March 3, 2025

Amnesty International Supplier Code of Conduct

February 28, 2025

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Thailand

Thailand: ‘Deportation’ of Uyghurs to China ‘unimaginably cruel’

Responding to reports that a group of about 40 Uyghurs who have been detained in Thailand since 2014 were today deported to China, Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks said: “The forcible return of these men, or indeed any Uyghurs, to China would place them at risk of serious human rights violations. We urge the…

February 27, 2025

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Thailand

Business and Human Rights

Amnesty International Thailand announcing results of 2024 Human Rights Media Awards

On 17 February 2025, Amnesty International Thailand organized an event to announce and confer the “2024 Human Rights Media Awards” at the Best Western Hotel, Chatuchak, Bangkok. The awards were presented to honor outstanding media works in the field of human rights in the categories of news and news feature in print and online media,…

February 18, 2025