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This report documents the global use of the death penalty in 2023, noting that figures are based on confirmed cases and likely understate the true scale due to state secrecy and restricted information.

This report outlines human rights issues observed across 155 countries throughout 2023, linking global and regional challenges.

This report examines the demolition of over 128 properties without due process across five Indian states, leaving hundreds displaced and highlighting an ongoing policy of punitive action against Muslim communities.

This research briefing analyses the punitive demolitions of 128 properties in the states of Assam, Delhi, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh following episodes of communal violence and protests between April and June 2022.

Four years ago, decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland was achieved. Yet people seeking abortion care are facing multiple barriers. Discover the what's gone wrong, what Amnesty is calling for.

Read our report on barriers to accessing abortion services in Northern Ireland

This report exposes the barriers to accessing abortion services in Northern Ireland, showing how delays and systemic failures cause harm, and sets out the background, challenges and recommendations needed to ensure access to this essential healthcare.

This report explores how TikTok’s design and content targeting systems affect children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing.

This report explores how TikTok’s highly personalised ‘For You’ feed, used by millions of children and young people worldwide, is driven by a surveillance‑based business model that puts children’s rights at risk.

This report examines Prevent referrals and interventions at public events, drawing on interviews, training observation, document analysis and nearly 4,700 survey responses.

This report is based on an investigation into Meta’s role in the serious human rights abuses perpetrated against the Tigrayan community between 2020 and 2022.

Across the world, when communities speak up they face torture by the authorities. During peaceful protests, police forces across the world are increasingly misusing weapons to violently repress protesters. Learn more about how we can stop it together.

Welcome to life as a woman in Afghanistan, where change has come but your rights are in danger of slipping away.

An Amnesty International report calling for urgent global action in response to extreme heatwaves in Pakistan

Legal assessment of the Taliban's crime of gender persecution & why those fleeing persecution must be considered refugees

A global look at the state of the death penalty in 2022 - its use, legal issues, regional differences, resumed practices, and continued momentum toward abolition.

Discover how facial recognition fragments, segregates, and controls palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

This report examines the progress Qatar has achieved on labour rights in the 12 years since it was awarded to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the impacts of its reforms and what further action is needed to protect the rights of migrant workers.

This report is based on an in-depth investigation into Meta’s role in the serious human rights violations perpetrated against the Rohingya.

The victims of serious human rights violations committed during the Troubles must get the truth, justice and accountability to which they are entitled. The UK Government’s Troubles Bill undermines this process and it must be stopped. This is our campaign…