Executives of surveillance companies Amesys and Nexa Technologies indicted...
Responding to the news that four executives of French surveillance companies Amesys and Nexa Technologies have been indicted for complicity in torture over the sale of surveillance technology to...
View ArticleUAE: UN experts condemn forced return of ex-Guantanamo inmate to Russia...
GENEVA (2 July 2021) – UN human rights experts* today expressed serious concerns about the imminent forced repatriation of former Guantanamo detainee Rival Mingazov from the United Arab Emirates to...
View ArticleMexico: Thousands of Disappearances From 2018-2020 Not Being Investigated As...
Justice is failing Mexico’s disappeared starting from the first step of the process: recognizing and investigating disappearances as crimes. This is one of the central findings of a new campaign...
View ArticlePakistan: Authorities must deliver on pledge to end cruelty of enforced...
Pakistan’s authorities must deliver long-promised reform to end state-sanctioned enforced disappearances and finally bring the country in line with international human rights law and standards, said...
View ArticleUN Committee on Enforced Disappearances to reviewBrazil, France, Panama and...
GENEVA (10 September 2021) – The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) will hold its upcoming session from 13 to 24 September, during which it will review Brazil, France Panama and Spain.read more
View ArticleThailand: Legislation on torture, enforced disappearances must offer justice...
Responding to the Thai parliament’s vote to approve in principle a draft law that seeks to criminalize both torture and enforced disappearances in Thailand for the first time, Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty...
View ArticleParliament Begins to Deliberate Long-Awaited Law
Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen, a prominent ethnic Karen activist, was last seen in government custody at Kaeng Krachan National Park in Phetchaburi province in April 2014.read more
View ArticleStates must cease turning blind eye to cross-border enforced disappearances...
GENEVA (21 September 2021) – A group of UN human rights experts today expressed alarm at the growing practice of covert extraterritorial operations by State agents, including so-called extraordinary...
View ArticlePakistan: New briefing documents far-reaching impact of enforced...
The Pakistani authorities must end their abhorrent use of enforced disappearance, said Amnesty International, in a new briefing today detailing the practice’s devastating impact on the families of...
View ArticlePakistan: Victims of enforced disappearance should not be discouraged from...
GENEVA (10 December 2021) – A group of UN experts today called on Pakistan to halt the approval of an amendment to a bill criminalizing enforced disappearances that would harshly penalize families and...
View ArticleClimate, Energy and Environment
The effects of climate change are already being seen throughout the world, and it is clear that a fundamental change in the world’s economy will be needed if the planet is to survive. Lower income...
View ArticleHRCP demands economic stability, political rights
Lahore, 18 June 2022 : On concluding its biannual meeting, the governing council of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed its concern at the alarming polarization in political...
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View ArticleSyria: Families of Disappeared Deserve Answers
Fadwa Mahmoud holds portraits of her son and husband, who disappeared in Syria in 2012, in Berlin, Germany. © 2021Hannibal Hanschke.read more
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