On 30 November 2023, the Supreme Court of Russia ruled to recognize “the international public LGBT movement” as “extremist”. This has effectively outlawed any public association with the LGBTI community. Russia must immediately review this ruling to prevent widespread persecution of LGBTI people....

Ever since Muktinath Adhikari, an educator and activist, was brutally murdered by the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) cadres in Lamjung for allegedly refusing to pay donations on 16 January 2002 (BS 2058 Magh 3), Amnesty International Nepal and Muktinath Adhikari Memorial Foundation have...

चन्दा नदिएको आरोपमा तत्कालीन नेकपा (माओवादी) का कार्यकर्ताहरूद्वारा २०५८ साल माघ ३ गते लमजुङका शिक्षक तथा अधिकारकर्मी मुक्तिनाथ अधिकारीको निर्ममतापूर्वक हत्या गरिएको भोलि २२ वर्ष हुँदै छ। २२ वर्ष बितिसक्दा पनि अन्य द्वन्द्वकालीन मानवअधिकार उल्लङ्घनका पीडित परिवारले जस्तै उनको परिवारले अझै उनको...

On January 17, it will be 22 years since educator and activist Muktinath Adhikari was brutally murdered by the then Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) cadres in Lamjung for allegedly refusing to pay donations back in 2002. Twenty-two long years on, his family, and many like his, still await justice...

With an aim to contributing to ensure authorities respect, protect and promote peoples’ right to freedom of peaceful assembly as per international human rights standards and obligations, and to confront unprecedented worldwide threat to the right to protest, Amnesty International is running a...

प्रेस विज्ञप्ति २०८० मंसिर २९ विश्व नेतृत्वउपर अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय दबाब कायम राख्न र इजरायल र अधीनस्थ प्यालेस्टाइन क्षेत्रमा दिगो युद्धविरामको आह्वानलाई अझ सशक्त बनाउने उद्देश्यका साथ यही पौष २ गते (१८ डिसेम्बर २०२३) विभिन्न नागरिक सङ्घसंस्थाले विश्वभरी संयुक्त रूपमा ग्लोबल डे अफ याक्सन  (Global Day of...

With the aim of exerting international pressure on the world leadership and strengthening the call for a sustained ceasefire in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel, various civil organizations across the world are jointly organizing a Global Day of Action on 18 December through mass...

इजरायल र हमाससहित अन्य सशस्त्र समूहहरू बीचको द्वन्द्वको अत्यधिक वृद्धिले नागरिकहरूको जीवनमा अत्यन्त प्रभाव पारेको छ। हताहतीको अभूतपूर्व तहमा पुगेको छ र अनगिन्ती जीवनहरू छिन्न-भिन्न र अन्त्य भएका छन्। प्रत्येक दिन बित्दै जाँदा थप जीवन गुमिरहेको छ र गाजामा मानवीय संकट झन् झन् खराब हुँदैछ। नागरिकको...

COP28 in Dubai has agreed on the need to move away from fossil fuels for the first time, at the end of a climate summit marred by restrictions on civil society, and the United Arab Emirates’ blatant contempt for human rights, Amnesty International said. The headline COP28 agreement on the Global...

नवराज बिक तथा अन्य पाँच जनाको हत्यासम्बन्धी मुद्दामा २६ जनालाई हत्या र जातीय विभेदमा कसूरदार ठहर गरेको रुकुम (पश्चिम) जिल्ला अदालतको २०८० मङ्सिर १९ को ऐतिहासिकफैसलाउपर प्रतिक्रिया जनाउदै एम्नेस्टी इन्टरनेसनल नेपालका निर्देशक निराजन थपलियाले भने – “जिल्ला अदालतको उक्त फैसला दलित परिवारहरूलाई...

Responding to the landmark verdict on 5 December on the killing of Nabaraj BK and five others by the West Rukum District Court in Nepal, convicting 26 individuals for murder and caste-based discrimination, Nirajan Thapaliya, Director of Amnesty International Nepal, said:  “The District Court...