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The war in Sudan is a war on civilians.

New report by @amnesty documents the RSF’s crimes against humanity of murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution.
https://t.co/GzV6t2KzRG

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

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.

[Amnesty MENA @AmnestyMENA]

🚨Israeli authorities must immediately release the arbitrarily detained Palestinian paediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan hospital, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya amidst reports from a lawyer who visited him that there is an imminent threat to his life as a result of torture and other ill treatment he has been suffering while in Israeli custody.

Dr Hussam Abu Safiya has been arbitrarily detained in Israeli jails for over 18 months – without charge or trial – since 27 December 2024, when he was arrested while on duty at his hospital in Gaza City.

https://t.co/GNjHuOs7Ub

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🚨We are deeply alarmed by the reports that there is an imminent threat to Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya’s life as a result of torture and other ill treatment he has been suffering while in Israeli custody. Israeli authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Dr. Abu Safiya. Pending his release, we call on the Israeli Prison service to ensure he is fully protected from abuse, granted urgent adequate medical care and allowed immediate visitation by independent monitors.

Act now: https://t.co/vaPOQtMRC4

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

New findings by Citizen Lab show former MEP Stelios Kouloglou's device was infected with Pegasus spyware between October 2022 and March 2023, while he served on a European Parliament committee investigating Pegasus and similar spyware.

Read more: https://t.co/TxlyJyRr8R

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

End white supremacy. Now.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Indonesia and its province of Banda Aceh must decriminalise consensual intimacy and repeal discriminatory bylaws that allow corporal punishment. For example: caning.

An unmarried couple was publicly caned for kissing on TikTok Live - a grim reminder of the enduring human rights violations permitted under Aceh’s Islamic Criminal Code. The punishment shows how Sharia police in the province are intensifying digital monitoring efforts, framing acts like the public display of intimacy outside marriage as a violation of the law. This cruel treatment frequently crosses the line into torture. It has no place in a just and humane society.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

We stand in solidarity with all those directly or indirectly affected by this disaster, which now risks further compounding an already severe and protracted human rights crisis and humanitarian emergency suffered by the Venezuelan people for over a decade.

The country’s health system has been decimated while state repression has greatly weakened human rights protection.

[Laurie Hanna @LaurieHanna]

In #Sudan, the RSF committed crimes against humanity during its assault on El Fasher 🇸🇩

Our major new @Amnesty report reveals how children were deliberately targeted during attacks

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/I6RbgFRsug

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

Today’s adoption of the UN's Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy marks an unwanted milestone: it has now been five years – and two consecutive negotiating cycles – with almost no substantive updates, despite continued calls from civil society.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

In another setback for transgender people, the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of denying young transgender athletes the ability to participate in recreational activities with their friends and peers - simply due to their gender identity.

This decision, which comes amid rising authoritarian practises under Trump’s administration, feeds into growing efforts to legalise discrimination against transgender people - but they have a human right to the same opportunities as their cisgender peers. We are united with the athletes harmed by this devastating decision. They must not be forced from existence.

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

#Sudan: RSF atrocities in El Fasher ‘a stain on the Conscience of Humanity’

Our new @Amnesty report finds that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during their assault on El Fasher, North Darfur.

Based on 247 survivor testimonies, satellite imagery and video analysis, the evidence is clear:

This is a war on civilians.

📌 Key findings, between early 2024 and October 2025:
- Civilians were deliberately targeted through murder, torture, imprisonment, forcible transfer and persecution.
- Rape, sexual slavery, enslavement and other sexual violence were widespread.
- Children were not collateral damage, they were killed, raped, abducted and forcibly recruited.
- Non‑Arab communities were attacked using racist and dehumanising language
- Older people and persons with disabilities were targeted, abandoned, or denied life‑saving aid.

🚨 Amnesty calls for:
- An immediate ceasefire
- The urgent deployment of an independent international force to protect civilians

The world has been warned. The time to act is NOW!

Read the report: https://t.co/ycCPPbIXtr

[Sarah Kimani @sarahkimani]

Children and women have borne the greatest brunt of the conflict in #Sudan. Today @amnesty releases a new report on human rights atrocities against children in Sudan's El Fasher region. Read it here: https://t.co/ATNxecfK4p

[Laurie Hanna @LaurieHanna]

NEW: RSF atrocities in El Fasher in #Sudan ‘a stain on the conscience of humanity’ - @Amnesty report 🇸🇩

“The world was warned of the horrors that civilians in El Fasher confronted as the RSF laid siege to the city” - @AgnesCallamard

https://t.co/I6RbgFRsug

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Without urgent action from the international community, attacks on civilians and the immense suffering and trauma being inflicted on children, will continue unhindered.

Demand a nationwide ceasefire in Sudan.
https://t.co/PjSvhIRaPf

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

In October and November 2025, Amnesty researchers, visited northeastern Chad near the border with Sudan. Here they documented what civilians have lived through since the war began.

Many of the people they spoke to were children. Children who fled under fire were deliberately shot, separated from their families or forced to survive on their own. These are their stories.

Take action for the children of Sudan: https://t.co/jfh3PzmD9q

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Join us live from our press conference: https://t.co/IyT0Vsi2jJ

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

The war in Sudan is a war on civilians.

New report by @amnesty documents the RSF’s crimes against humanity of murder, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement, extermination and persecution.
https://t.co/GzV6t2KzRG

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Marches in full swing across South Africa today, on the deadline given by anti-migrant group March for March, are a result of the country's failing immigration systems that leave thousands of people undocumented and living in limbo, including refugees and asylum seekers.

This together with persistent inequalities and socioeconomic exclusion rooted in the legacies of apartheid go far beyond bureaucracy, feeding public frustration and creating fertile ground for misinformation. No one should be scapegoated as a result of governmental failures.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

In #Uganda, President Museveni’s son and military chief Muhoozi Kainerugaba ordered the shutdown of the Daily Monitor newspaper, continuing his unchecked and unjust campaign of harassment and intimidation of independent media and civil society.

These latest attacks on media outlets in Uganda are emblematic of years-long crackdown on freedoms of expression and association in the country.
https://t.co/gdItBOco9B

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Tens of thousands of people gathered to celebrate LGBTI rights in Hungary at the Budapest Pride a year after the previous government threatened to ban the march. Change is possible.

Together, we choose to resist.

#HumanityMustWin