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A wall mural of women with a writing "Afghan women will not be silent anymore" is depicted along a street in Kabul on January 10, 2023. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)

26th May 2023
Afghanistan: Taliban treatment of women and girls should be investigated as the crime against humanity of gender persecution

Brian Yap, research consultant of Amnesty International Malaysia, holds a copy of a report on the death penalty in Malaysia, during its launch in Petaling Jaya on October 10, 2019. - Malaysian police sometimes use torture to extract confessions from suspects in death penalty cases, who often face unfair trials, Amnesty International said on October 10, piling pressure on the government to abolish capital punishment.

3rd April 2023
Malaysia: Historic change unfolding as Dewan Rakyat votes to repeal mandatory death penalty

27th March 2023
Malaysia: Bills introduced to lead to abolition of the Mandatory Death Penalty

South African police officers fire rubber bullet as they chase protestors in the streets of Johannesburg, on April 23, 2019 during a protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance. - Police and protesters exchanged volleys of teargas and stones in Johannesburg on April 23, 2019 after a suburb erupted into protest over public services ahead of polls on May 8. Dozens of residents in the working class Turffontein suburb blocked the main road through ward 55, burning tyres, mattresses and tree branches over allegedly unfair allocation of nearby new social housing. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

14th March 2023
Global: Dozens killed and thousands maimed by police misuse of rubber bullets

A collage of human rights defenders who have been punished in Afghanistan by the Taliban

6th March 2023
Afghanistan: Taliban’s ongoing ‘relentless abuses’ must be addressed at UN Human Rights Council

Kem Sokha speaks to media as he departs his residence for the Phnom Penh municipal court for his trial on January 15, 2020

3rd March 2023
Cambodia: Opposition leader Kem Sokha sentenced to 27 years on fabricated treason charge

Illustration of children in Thailand at a protest

7th February 2023
Thailand: Child protesters face ‘severe repercussions’ for taking part in mass demonstrations

8th December 2022
Afghanistan: Amnesty international condemns public execution by the Taliban

28th October 2022
Write For Rights 2022: Shahnewaz Chowdhury – Bangladesh: FACING PRISON FOR A FACEBOOK POST

28th October 2022
Write For Rights 2022: Chow Hang-tung – HONG KONG: JAILED FOR REMEMBERING VICTIMS OF DEADLY CRACKDOWN

A group of activists hold placards of Japanese citizen Toru Kubota, who is detained in Myanmar, during a rally in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tokyo on July 31, 2022.

6th October 2022
Myanmar: Japanese filmmaker jailed for seven years in latest attack on independent media

4th October 2022
Sri Lanka: Human rights compliant recovery measures critical to stop spiralling hunger and poverty

3rd October 2022
Indonesia: Investigate police tear gas use after at least 130 people die in football match stampede

30th September 2022
Write for Rights Webinar 2022: Act for Chow Hang-Tung

Artwork commissioned for publication of research looking at the Rohingya right to remedy from Meta (Facebook)

29th September 2022
Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report

Six Hazaran people tortured and killed by the Taliban

16th September 2022
Afghanistan: Taliban torture and execute Hazaras in targeted attack – new investigation

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Amnesty International Ireland is an approved body under section 209 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Section 209 of the TCA 1997 applies to an organisation which is a body for the promotion of the observance of the universal declaration of the Human Rights or the implementation of the European convention for the protection of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms