Press Release
East and Southern Africa: Journalists Targeted Amid Ongoing Crackdown on Media
Authorities across East and Southern Africa continued to impose severe restrictions on the right to freedom of expression and media freedom.
May 3, 2024
Report
“If you don’t cooperate, I’ll gun you down” Conflict-related sexual violence and impunity in South Sudan
Conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) in South Sudan has been a persistent feature of the conflict that broke out in December…
May 18, 2022
Press Release
Survivors Describe Killings, Mass Displacement and Terror Amid Fighting in Western Equatoria, South Sudan
Dozens of civilians in South Sudan were killed and tens of thousands displaced amid fighting between armed groups in Western…
December 8, 2021
Press Release
Regional human rights bodies struggle to uphold rights amid political headwinds in Africa
For a second consecutive year, Amnesty International has documented how African governments are grossly undermining regional human rights bodies by…
October 20, 2020
Press Release
Protect Detainees at Risk of COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, Unclog Prisons and Release Prisoners of Conscience
Authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa must take urgent action to protect people in detention from COVID-19, including releasing prisoners of conscience,…
April 20, 2020
Press Release
Write For Rights: Amnesty International Launches Global Campaign Championing Youth Activists
Amnesty International has today launched Write for Rights, the world’s biggest human rights campaign, which this year champions children’s rights…
November 17, 2019
Press Release
Catastrophic failure as civilians ravaged by war violations 70 years after Geneva Conventions
The UN Security Council must mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions this year by ending its catastrophic failure to…
May 22, 2019
Report
Arbitrary arrests, torture of detainees despite repeated promises in South Sudan
South Sudanese authorities have arbitrarily arrested, detained tortured and ill-treated people to the point of death, despite repeated promises to…
September 4, 2018
Press Release
South Sudan: US arms embargo should inspire tougher action from UN Security Council
Responding to news that the US government has imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan, now in its fifth year…
February 2, 2018
Report
Do not remain silent: Survivors of Sexual violence in South Sudan call for justice and reparations
Thousands of South Sudanese women and girls -- and some men -- who have been raped in ethnically-charged sexual attacks…
July 23, 2017
Report
If Men Are Caught They Are Killed, If Women Are Caught They Are Raped: Atrocities Turn South Sudan’s Breadbasket Into A Killing Field
A new frontline in South Sudan’s conflict has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee the country’s fertile Equatoria…
July 3, 2017
Press Release
South Sudan: Government forces continue to commit war crimes despite peace agreement
Amid a fresh outbreak of fighting in South Sudan, a new report by Amnesty International reveals the true horror suffered…
July 27, 2016