Agnès Callamard

Palestinians recall life in Gaza before years of Israeli bombardment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday strongly condemned the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navi Pillay, accusing the Nobel Committee of honoring a figure who has spent years promoting allegations against Israel

Amnesty International has denounced Morocco’s intelligence agency for using spyware, hidden microphones and pre-infected phones in the “unlawful surveillance” of journalists and human rights defenders

Official statements and leaked documents cited by Amnesty reveal instructions for a “firm and severe” response

Amnesty’s report draws from testimonies and interviews of foreign citizens detained in Ukrainian prisoner-of-war camps

France's highest constitutional authority on Friday, August 14, upheld in its entirety legislation granting adults suffering from an incurable condition the right to assisted dying, while ruling that some provisions required clarification

The organisation also accuses paramilitaries of widespread violence against children, including murder, rape and forced recruitment

The release of Amnesty’s new report comes on Wednesday as the Israeli government has approved record levels of illegal settlement expansion and annexation of large parts of the West Bank in recent months

"In the 18 months since Prabowo took power, online disinformation has emerged as a key tactic to systematically discredit government critics, shut down public debate and justify ​repression," Amnesty International's Secretary General Agnès Callamard said in a statement accompanying the release of the report, ​entitled "Building Up Imaginary Enemies"

The Islamic Republic of Iran executed more than 2,150 individuals last year, spearheading a shocking global surge that has pushed recorded judicial killings worldwide to their highest levels since 1981, AFP reported

The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual televised competition organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

Launching its annual report in London, the organisation’s secretary general Agnès Callamard condemned US President Donald Trump, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “predators.”

Now, with President Nicolás Maduro in U.S. custody and the Trump administration applying pressure, his vice president and confidante, Delcy Rodríguez, had begun to release some of the hundreds of political prisoners it held

Venezuela has been led by interim president Delcy Rodriguez since her former boss, Maduro, was captured by US forces and spirited to the United States to face trial

Iranian residents have reported headaches, difficulty breathing, and oil-contaminated rain settling on buildings and cars

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar condemns UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for antisemitic remarks, urges Israel to take an offensive stance against those delegitimizing the Jewish state

Friday’s announcement was seen as a positive step towards addressing human rights abuses under the leadership of former President Nicolas Maduro