Amnesty International

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s reprehensible attack on the ICC is the latest in a series of escalating and existential assaults by the Trump administration on the very idea of international justice. bit.ly/4ffh1lv

Marco Rubio’s reprehensible attack on the ICC is the latest in a series of escalating and existential assaults by the Trump administration on the very idea of international justice and a rules-based order, and on the international institutions painstakingly put in place over the last 80 years to ensure global peace and stability. This attack came on the very day the ICC’s Deputy Prosecutor was in Chad meeting Darfuri victims of war crimes and atrocities in Sudan. The contrast could not be starker: while victims seek justice, the US government is seeking to undermine one of the world’s most important mechanisms for delivering it. The ICC exists to deliver justice for the victims and survivors of atrocities around the world and hold the most powerful perpetrators accountable for their crimes. By threatening increased sanctions against the ICC and affiliated organizations, visa revocations and travel bans for ICC personnel, and heightened diplomatic pressure on other states to withdraw from the Court and oppose it, the US government is stepping up its campaign for a world without rules and without justice. If other states bow to this pressure, they will acquiesce to a new era of lawlessness, impunity and rampant injustice. Now is not the time to appease. Now is the time to resist. Appeasement will only further embolden perpetrators and open the door to more armed conflicts and more crimes committed by powerful leaders against their own or other states’ populations. Amnesty International calls on all states to firmly resist – both collectively and unilaterally – the Trump administration’s campaign against the ICC and all international institutions that protect human rights. They must also reiterate their support for the Court and enact practical and legislative measures, including so-called ‘blocking statutes’, to mitigate the effect of US sanctions on those impacted. State inaction and cowardice in the face of past sanctions and attacks is what emboldened the US to announce this strategy. For the good of humanity, victims’ hopes of justice, and the prospect of lasting global security, the international community must come together, stand up to the bullies in the White House and State Department and protect the international rule of law. We must not accept a reality where the most powerful have the least legal responsibility.

PAKISTAN: Zubair Shah Agha, a core committee member of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), was arbitrarily detained on 28 June after attending a press conference organized by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) in Quetta on the sentencing of Mahrang Baloch. He has since been held in administrative detention under section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO). Zubair Agha's detention is the latest in a growing pattern of Pakistani authorities using administrative detention powers to arbitrarily deprive activists, journalists and human rights defenders of their liberty. Similar to Zubair, Syed Bibi Baloch was taken into administrative detention under MPO on 1 July in Turbat, Balochistan after a peaceful protest was announced regarding Mahrang’s sentencing. On 20 June, journalist Ahmad Farhad was also detained under MPO in Bagh, Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir, where he remains in custody. Pakistani authorities must immediately release Zubair Shah Agha, Syed Bibi Baloch and Ahmad Farhad, and end the misuse of administrative detention laws to suppress peaceful dissent and uphold the rights to liberty, freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

With the RSF now laying siege to El Obeid and reportedly preparing a ground offensive, the international community must not allow the atrocities documented in El Fasher to be repeated in El Obeid.

Extreme heat is killing hundreds of thousands of people across the world, and the climate crisis has a huge part to play. The constant burning of fossil fuels that pollutes our air and is the main driver of global heating is causing these deaths to skyrocket. It is not too late for governments and corporations to phase out fossil fuels through a just transition that protects human rights, including the right to a healthy environment.

Violence must never become the price of exercising our constitutional rights. As Kenya heads toward the 2027 General Election, we must reject the normalisation of organised political violence. The State has a duty to protect peaceful assemblies, prevent violence, and hold everyone responsible to account. No excuses. No impunity. #LetsNotNormaliseViolence

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas. Joan Sebastian Guerrero in Maine. Two more lives were taken by ICE in less than a week. Both killings demand independent, impartial, and transparent investigations. But that isn't enough. ICE’s presence across the U.S. has spread fear, separated families, and taken lives. Political leaders must act. ICE does not belong in our communities, and they must demand #ICEOUT before yet another life is stolen too soon.

Less than a week after the last killing, ICE agents have taken yet another life, this time in Maine. Joan Sebastian Guerrero should still be alive. We demand an independent, impartial, and transparent investigation into this killing, but that isn't enough. ICE’s presence across the U.S. has spread fear, separated families, and taken lives. Our political leaders must act. ICE does not belong in our communities, and they must demand #ICEOUT before yet another life is stolen too soon.

🚨NEWS: The EU's Special Panel on Child Safety Online is right to recommend further action to tackle the harmful design of social media platforms, emphasizing the need for children to participate in a safe online environment. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

This must stop. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and maintaining its unlawful occupation and apartheid against Palestinians while also committing war crimes in Lebanon. Meanwhile its trade with the EU is booming. Today is the last chance before EU politicians break for summer to suspend the EU Israel Association Agreement. Over 1 million people have demanded it. NGOs, unions, UN experts and hundreds of diplomats and ambassadors agree. Two states hold the key. Tell Germany and Italy to act. Sign the petition here: amn.st/6013BET17b

📍New @amnesty investigation | Within the space of just a week in March 2026 – three Israeli strikes obliterated entire families, including a dozen children, in southern Lebanon. They must be investigated as war crimes. amn.st/6018BEJiqe

We call on Indonesian authorities to urgently repeal its classification of the spread of LGBTQI+ culture as a 'non-military threat'. The forced removal of a scientifically backed online post that concluded homosexuality is not a mental disorder brought attention to the regulation, which places the spread of LGBTQI+ culture in the same category as terrorism, separatism and radicalism. Its removal sets a dangerous precedent of censorship and fortifies the harmful regulation itself.

The World Cup group stages brought joy to people around the world - but we must not forget about the human rights perspective. While teams went head-to-head in stadiums across Canada, the US and Mexico, ICE arrests doubled, many fans and athletes on the US travel ban list were denied entry to the country to watch the games, and players and fans were victims of racism. We still have time to make this a World Cup for all, and there must be change beyond the games. Mass detentions and deportations must end, and the US must become a place free from discrimination and hate. We called and continue to call for no fear, no crackdowns and no excuses as we hit the quarter-finals. Make the World Cup an arena of joy, not fear. Humanity Must Win.

It is great that the ICC says it reached a "breakthrough” in its investigation in Darfur. In a report issued last week, Amnesty found that the RSF committed 8 crimes against humanity & ethnic cleansing in North Darfur. It also identified 3 RSF commanders responsible for abuses. The international community must support accountability efforts in Sudan including the work of the ICC.

It is great that the ICC says it reached a "breakthrough” in its investigation in Darfur. In a report issued last week, @amnesty found that the RSF committed 8 crimes against humanity & ethnic cleansing in North Darfur. It also identified 3 RSF commanders responsible for abuses.

A year after we documented widespread abuse of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, our new briefing shows that Filipino women are facing many of the same abuses, including being overworked, exploited and subjected to degrading treatment, as well as sexual assault in some cases. Read more 👇 amn.st/6011BEJiah

Six months after Iran’s security forces unlawfully killed thousands of men, women and children across the country over a two-day period, the international community’s failure to take meaningful action to pursue international justice is indefensible. Read more: amn.st/6016BEGElM