Amnesty International Report 2017/18

•  Background 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Freedom of association 
•  Counter-terror and security 
•  Violence against women and girls 

India

•  Abuses by armed groups 
•  Caste-based discrimination and violence 
•  Children’s rights 
•  Communal and ethnic violence 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Indigenous Peoples’ rights 
•  Jammu and Kashmir 
•  Police and security forces 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Women’s rights 

INDONESIA

•  Background 
•  Impunity 
•  Freedoms of assembly, association and expression 
•  Freedom of religion and belief 
•  Police and security forces 
  •  Excessive use of force 
  •  Unlawful killings 
•  Deaths in custody 
•  Cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights – right to water 

Iran

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of expression, association and assembly 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
  •  Cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment 
•  Unfair trials 
•  Freedom of religion and belief 
•  Discrimination – ethnic minorities 
•  Discrimination – women and girls 
•  Discrimination – persons with disabilities and people living with HIV 
•  Death penalty 

Iraq

•  Background 
•  Abuses by armed groups 
•  Armed conflict – violations by government forces, coalition forces and militias 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
  •  Torture and enforced disappearances 
•  Unfair trials 
•  Internally displaced people 
  •  Forced displacement and destruction of property 
•  Arms trade 
•  Freedom of expression – Kurdistan Region of Iraq 
•  Impunity 
•  Death penalty 

IRELAND

•  Women’s rights 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Right to housing 
•  Sex workers 
•  Discrimination – Travellers 
•  Freedom of expression 

Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

•  Background 
•  Freedom of movement – Gaza blockade and West Bank restrictions 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Unlawful killings 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Freedoms of expression, association and assembly 
•  right to Housing – forced evictions and demolitions 
•  Impunity 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Deprivation of nationality 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Conscientious objectors 

Italy

•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
  •  Co-operation with Libya to control migration 
  •  NGOs’ search and rescue operations 
  •  Asylum procedures 
  •  Unaccompanied children 
  •  Relocation and resettlement schemes 
•  Right to housing and forced evictions 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Deaths in custody 

Jamaica

•  Background 
•  Police and security forces 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Right to privacy 
•  Children’s rights 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people 
•  Right to health 
•  International justice 

Japan

•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Discrimination – ethnic minorities 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant workers 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Violence against women and girls 

Jordan

•  Background 
•  Detention 
  •  Administrative detention 
•  Freedom of association 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Workers’ rights – Migrant workers 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  International justice 
•  Death penalty 

Kazakhstan

•  Workers’ Rights 
•  Prisoners of conscience 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Impunity 
•  Freedom of association 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Women’s rights 
•  International scrutiny 

Kenya

•  Background 
•  Justice system 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Freedom of association 
•  Refugees and asylum seekers 
•  Indigenous Peoples’ rights 
•  Right to health 

KOREA (DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF)

•  Background 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant workers 
•  Freedom of movement 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  International scrutiny 

Korea (Republic of)

•  Background 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Conscientious objectors 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Workers’ rights − migrant workers 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Corporate accountability 

Kuwait

•  Background 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Counter-terror and security 
•  Deprivation of nationality 
•  Discrimination – Bidun 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant workers 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Death penalty 

Kyrgyzstan

•  Prisoners of conscience 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Sex workers 
•  Right to health 
•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 
•  Freedoms of expression and assembly 

Laos

•  Background 
•  Enforced disappearances 
•  Freedoms of expression, assembly and association 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 

Latvia

•  Unfair trials 
•  Detention 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Discrimination 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Women’s rights 

Lebanon

•  Background 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Right to health 
•  Death penalty 

Lesotho

•  Background 
•  Unlawful killings 
•  Impunity 
•  Unfair trials 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Freedom of expression 

Liberia

•  Background 
•  Impunity 
•  Detention 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Right to education 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 

Libya

•  Background 
•  Internal armed conflict 
•  Unlawful killings 
•  Freedoms of expression and association 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Justice system 
•  Internally displaced people 
•  Migrants, refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Women’s rights 

Lithuania

• International scrutiny
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 

Macedonia

•  Background 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Impunity 
•  Justice system 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 
•  Deaths in custody 
•  Counter-terror and security 

Madagascar

•  Background 
•  International scrutiny 
•  Justice system 
•  Detention 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 

Malawi

•  Discrimination – people with albinism 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Human rights defenders 

Malaysia

•  Freedom of expression 
•  Freedom of movement 
•  Freedoms of association and assembly 
•  Indigenous Peoples’ rights 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Police and security forces 
•  Death penalty 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 

MALDIVES

•  Justice system 
•  Unfair trials 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Death penalty 

Mali

•  International scrutiny 
•  Abuses by armed groups 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Detention 
•  Impunity 
•  Right to education 
•  International justice 

Malta

•  Background 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 

Mauritania

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of expression, association and assembly 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 

Mexico

•  Background 
•  Police and security forces 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Enforced disappearances 
•  Extrajudicial executions 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Human rights defenders and journalists 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 

Moldova

•  Background 
•  Freedom of association 
•  Unfair trials 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 

MONGOLIA

•  Death penalty 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Right to housing and forced evictions 

Montenegro

•  Background 
•  Lack of accountability 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Freedom of expression 
  •  journalists 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 

Morocco/Western Sahara

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of expression and association 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Impunity 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Death penalty 
•  Polisario camps 

Mozambique

•  Background 
•  Land disputes 
•  Freedoms of expression and association 
•  Discrimination – people with albinism 
•  Violence against women and girls 

MYANMAR

•  Background 
•  Crimes under international law – crimes against humanity 
•  Internal armed conflict  
•  Lack of humanitarian access 
•  Refugees and internally displaced people 
•  Prisoners of conscience 
•  Freedoms of expression, association and assembly 
•  Freedom of religion and belief 
•  Corporate accountability 
•  Death penalty 
•  Lack of accountability 
•  International scrutiny 

Namibia

•  Right to housing 
•  Caprivi detainees 

Nauru

•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Freedoms of expression and assembly 

NEPAL

•  Background 
•  Right to housing 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant WORKERS 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Transitional justice 
•  Impunity 
•  Discrimination 

Netherlands

•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Right to an adequate standard of living 
•  Counter-terror and security 
•  Police and security forces 
•  Freedom of religion and belief 

 NEW ZEALAND 

•  Justice system 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
• Children’s rights
•  International justice 
•  Right to health 

Nicaragua

•  Background 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Indigenous Peoples’ rights 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Grand Interoceanic Canal 
•  Freedoms of expression, association and assembly 

Niger

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of expression and association 
•  Armed conflict 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 

Nigeria

•  Armed conflict 
  •  Boko Haram 
•  Internally displaced people 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Lack of accountability 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Unlawful killings 
•  Communal violence 
•  Right to housing and forced evictions 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Freedoms of assembly and association 
•  Corporate accountability 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Death penalty 

 NORWAY 

•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  International justice 

Oman

•  Background 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant workers 
•  Death penalty 

PAKISTAN

•  BACKGROUND 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Violence against women and girls 
• Refugees and asylum-seekers
•  Police and security forces 

Palestine (State of)

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of expression and assembly 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Death penalty 
•  Impunity 

Papua New Guinea

•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Police and security forces 
•  Election-related violence 
•  Gender-related violence 

Paraguay

•  Freedoms of expression and assembly 
•  International scrutiny 
•  Indigenous Peoples’ rights 
•  Right to housing and forced evictions 
•  DETENTION
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 

Peru

•  Human rights defenders 
•  Indigenous Peoples’ rights 
•  Impunity 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 

PHILIPPINES

•  Extrajudicial executions and summary killings 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Death penalty 
•  Internal armed conflict 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Children’s rights 
•  Right to health 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 

Poland

•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Freedom of expression – journalists 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 
•  Freedom of association 
•  Counter-terror and security 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 

PORTUGAL

•  Right to housing and forced evictions 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  DETENTION
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Discrimination 
•  Violence against women 

Puerto Rico

•  Background 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Freedoms of expression and assembly 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Death penalty 

Qatar

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of expression, association and assembly 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant workers 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Children’s rights 
•  Death penalty 

Romania

•  Background 
•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 
•  Detention 
•  Discrimination – Roma 
  •  Right to housing and forced evictions 
  •  Right to education 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Counter-terror and security 
•  Discrimination – people with disabilities 
•  Violence against women and girls 

Russian Federation

•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Freedom of association 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Freedom of religion and belief 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  North Caucasus 
•  Unfair trials 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Armed conflict – Syria 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 

Rwanda

• Background
•  Freedoms of association and assembly 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Enforced disappearances 
•  Crimes under international law 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  International scrutiny 

Saudi Arabia

•  Background 
•  Discrimination – Shi’a minority 
•  Freedoms of expression, association and assembly 
  •  Human rights defenders 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant workers 
•  Death penalty 

Senegal

•  Unfair trials 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Detention and deaths in custody 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Children’s rights 
•  Impunity 
•  International justice 

Serbia

•  Background 
•  Crimes under international law 
•  Enforced disappearances 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Freedom of expression – journalists 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Discrimination – Roma 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Kosovo 
  •  Crimes under international law 
  •  Reparation 
  •  Enforced disappearances 
  •  Detention 
  •  Freedom of expression 
  •  Right to health 
  •  Violence against women and girls 

Sierra Leone

•  Freedom of expression 
•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 
•  Children’s rights 
•  Detention 
  •  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Death penalty 
•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 

SINGAPORE

•  Freedom of assembly 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Death penalty 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Workers’ rights – migrant workers 
•  Counter-terrorism and security 

Slovakia

•  Discrimination – Roma 
  •  Police and security forces 
  •  Right to education 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 

Slovenia

•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Discrimination 
•  The ‘erased’ 
•  Roma 

Somalia

•  Background 
•  Counter-terror and security 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Women’s rights 
•  Economic, social and cultural rights 

South Africa

•  Background 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Unlawful killings 
•  Gender-RELATED violence 
•  Sexual and reproductive rights 
•  Right to health 
•  International justice 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 

South Sudan

• Background
•  Internal armed conflict 
  • Sexual violence
  • Lack of humanitarian access
• Right to food
• Refugees and asylum-seekers and internally displaced people
•  Arbitrary detentions and torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Enforced disappearances 
•  
•  Freedom of expression 
• Lack of accountability
•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 

Spain

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of expression and assembly 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Refugees’ and migrants’ rights 
•  Counter-terror and security 
•  Violence against women 
•  Right to housing 
•  Impunity 

Sri Lanka

•  Background 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Torture and other ill-treatment 
•  Excessive use of force 
•  Enforced disappearances 
•  Impunity 
•  Human rights defenders 
•  Freedoms of expression, assembly and association 
•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 
•  Discrimination 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Death penalty 

Sudan

•  Background 
•  Freedoms of association and assembly 
•  Freedom of expression 
•  Arbitrary arrests and detentions 
•  Armed conflict 
  •  Darfur 
  •  South Kordofan and Blue Nile 

Swaziland

•  Background 
•  Right to housing and forced evictions 
•  Freedoms of assembly and association 
•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 
•  Violence against women and girls 
•  Impunity 

 Sweden 

•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Crimes under international law 
•  Discrimination 
•  Violence against women and girls 

Switzerland

•  Legal, constitutional or institutional developments 
•  Refugees and asylum-seekers 
•  Police and security forces 
•  Discrimination 
•  Women’s rights 

Syria