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Türkiye: New Climate Summit Host Must Respect, Protect and Facilitate Climate Justice Advocacy Before, During and After COP31

Türkiye must take decisive and transparent actions to tackle climate change in line with its international obligations.

November 20, 2025

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Chad: Authorities Failing to Address Deadly Clashes Between Herders and Farmers Amid Climate Crisis

The Chadian authorities have failed to protect the victims of armed clashes between herders and farmers.

November 20, 2025

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EU: Digital Omnibus Proposals Will Tear Apart Accountability on Digital Rights 

The EU’s ongoing deregulatory push will lead to a weakening of people's rights and expose them to digital oppression.

November 19, 2025

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Kenya: Authorities Weaponized Social Media and Digital Tools to Suppress Gen Z Protests 

Kenyan authorities have systematically and violently used technology to suppress Generation Z-led protests.

November 18, 2025

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Dominican Republic: The Facts Debunk the Myth – Migrants Do Not Overburden the Health System

Dominican hospitals should be places of care and protection, not spaces of fear and surveillance.

November 18, 2025

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Eswatini: Authorities Must Unconditionally Release Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza

Eswatini authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Bacede Mabuza and quash his and Mthandeni Dube’s unfair convictions.

November 18, 2025

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(Amnesty International)

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Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers Behind Riyadh Metro Project Subjected to Decade of Devastating Abuse

Migrant workers who built Saudi Arabia's Riyadh Metro were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, toiled in dangerous heat, and earned pitiful…

November 17, 2025

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Bangladesh: Justice for Victims of 2024 Massacre Not Served by Death Sentence Against Sheikh Hasina 

The trial and death sentence of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal was neither…

November 17, 2025

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Colombia: The Military Criminal Justice System Should Not Act in Cases of Human Rights Violations

The use of military criminal justice in possible human rights violations is not a technical error: it is a structural…

November 17, 2025

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Moldova: Fragile Media Challenged by Vague Laws, Undue Sanctions and Harassment

Moldova’s authorities must protect media freedom and develop media regulations in consultation with media and civil society.

November 16, 2025

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Amnesty International USA Welcomes Introduction of Gaza Genocide Resolution

The Congressional resolution recognizes Israel’s actions against Palestinians in Gaza as genocide.

November 14, 2025

US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House on March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
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President Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Must Address Human Rights Concerns During White House Visit

This meeting comes as the human rights conditions in both Saudi Arabia and the United States continue to worsen.

November 14, 2025