Click to expand Image People line up outside banks in Mekele as concerns grow over possible renewed fighting between federal and regional forces in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, January 31, 2026. © 2026 AP Photo This week African and other international leaders and actors arrive in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for the annual African Union […]
Click to expand Image The Italian Navy ship Libra in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Albania, April 11, 2025. © 2025 Vlasov Sulaj/AP Photo Before she was elected prime minister, Giorgia Meloni threatened to impose a naval blockade in the Mediterranean Sea to stop boats carrying migrants and asylum seekers from reaching Italy. […]
Click to expand Image “Gen Z” activists hold a demonstration in Kathmandu, Nepal, in September 2025 under the slogan ”Don’t Forget the Blood of Martyrs,” demanding justice and accountability for those killed during past protest movements. © 2025 Photo by Safal Prakash Shrestha/NurPhoto via AP Photo (London) – Nepal’s interim government led by Prime Minister Sushila […]
Click to expand Image Participants hold a placard reading “The independence of the judges is your security – Stand by them!” as Hungarian judges and court employees demonstrate in Budapest, Hungary, on February 22, 2025, for independence of the judiciary, rule of law, and freedom of expression of judges. © 2025 Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP […]
Click to expand Image Midwife Celena Brown of Commonsense Childbirth in Florida, examines a patient during a pregnancy checkup in Winter Garden, Florida, US, June 25, 2024. © 2024 Laura Ungar/AP Photo Today, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescinded its 2009 endangerment finding: a drastic move even in the context of the Trump administration’s larger deregulatory […]
Responding to a Hong Kong court’s conviction of the father of US-based pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok under the city’s Article 23 law, Amnesty International Hong Kong Overseas spokesperson Joey Siu said: “This conviction is the first time a family member of a ‘wanted’ pro-democracy activist living abroad has been convicted under Hong Kong’s national security […]
Court’s closure would fail victims & survivors and represent “a catastrophic setback” in country’s fight against impunity Court staff already reduced by 25% The Special Criminal Court (SCC) of the Central African Republic is at serious risk of closure in 2026, potentially depriving thousands of victims and survivors of war crimes and crimes against humanity […]
Slovenian authorities must amend the ‘Security Law’ and end punitive seizures of social assistance which disproportionately affect the Roma community, said Amnesty International today as the Legal Network for the Protection of Democracy, a collaboration of NGOs Amnesty International Slovenia is a part of, filed an appeal to Slovenia’s Constitutional Court. This harmful law is being used to target individuals and communities that already face daily discrimination, exclusion and poverty The Act on Urgent Measures […]
Click to expand Image Lieutenant General Dagvin R.M. A, USAF, General and Commander, United States Africa Command, at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, July 22, 2025. © 2025 Michael Brochstein/ZUMA via Getty Images The United States Africa Command has recently disclosed a small troop deployment […]
Click to expand Image The United Nations General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York City, January 15, 2026. © 2026 Cristina Matuozzi/Sipa via AP Photo United Nations member countries will select a new UN secretary-general this year to succeed António Guterres in January 2027. The change in leadership comes at a time when human rights […]
