Amnesty International

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

L’Assemblée nationale vient de voter la loi donnant un « permis de tuer » aux policiers. C’est un vote de la HONTE.

The ugly scenes of European Parliament members chanting ‘send them back’ are a manifestation of long-standing racism and xenophobia being tolerated and emboldened inside and outside the Parliament. In the context of systemic racism, the chant is based on the racist prejudice that migrants, refugees and asylum seekers - mostly racialized people in Europe - do not belong in the EU. This incident followed the vote on the Return Regulation, a law that will vastly expand the EU's detention and deportation of undocumented people. For years, European leaders have scapegoated migrants, refugees and asylum seekers to distract from their own failures to deal with the consequences of cuts to public services, the housing crisis and the rising cost of living. President Roberta Metsola’s condemnation of this is welcome but not enough. As the EU prepares its harshest assault on migrants’ rights in recent memory, these scenes are a warning of what lies ahead if we fail to change course. This must be a moment of reckoning to confront racism in Europe.