Report
Amnesty International Policy on State Obligations to Respect, Protect and Fufil the Human Rights of Sex Workers
This policy has been developed in recognition of the high rates of human rights abuses experienced globally by individuals who…
May 23, 2016
Report
Sex Workers at Risk: A Research Summary of Human Rights Abuses Against Sex Workers
Amnesty International today published its policy on protecting sex workers from human rights violations and abuses, along with four research…
May 23, 2016
Report
Outlawed and Abused: Criminalizing Sex Work in Papua New Guinea
In Papua New Guinea, it is illegal to live off the earnings of sex work and to organize commercial sex.…
May 23, 2016
Report
What I’m Doing Is Not a Crime: The Human Cost of Criminalizing Sex Work in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Formally the sale or purchase of sex in Buenos Aires is not illegal; but in practice, sex workers are criminalized…
May 23, 2016
Report
The Human Cost of Crushing the Market: Criminalization of Sex Work in Norway
In Norway, purchasing sex is illegal but the direct act of selling sex is not. Other activities associated with sex…
May 23, 2016
Press Release
Bangladesh: Prominent elderly journalist suffering ill-treatment in jail
The Bangladeshi authorities’ treatment of a prominent 81-year-old journalist, who has been held in solitary confinement for several weeks and…
May 22, 2016
Press Release
Kazakhstan must release activists arrested in disturbing crackdown over Land Code protest
The Kazakhstani authorities must immediately and unconditionally release almost three dozen activists after dramatic wave of arrests, apparently aimed at…
May 20, 2016
Press Release
Government crackdowns on peaceful demonstrations in Viet Nam
The Vietnamese authorities have cracked down heavily in response to a series of demonstrations taking place throughout the country in…
May 20, 2016
Press Release
Angola: Release of activist after a successful appeal an overdue triumph for justice
Today’s release of human rights defender José Marcos Mavungo after the Angola Supreme Tribunal upheld his appeal against a six-year…
May 20, 2016
Press Release
El Salvador releases woman jailed after miscarriage, a victory for human rights
A court's decision today to release a woman who spent four years in jail in El Salvador for miscarrying her…
May 20, 2016
Press Release
Egypt steps up vicious onslaught against NGOs with arrest of minority rights defender
Prominent Egyptian human rights defender, Mina Thabet, Director of the Minority and Religious Groups Department at the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms…
May 19, 2016
Press Release
16-year-sentence against critically ill human rights defender in Iran signals all-out repression
The shocking 16-year prison sentence against prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who has several serious, chronic illnesses, represents an…
May 19, 2016