Sri Lanka: 📖 A new Amnesty International report finds that Malaiyaha Tamil workers on private tea estates in Southern Sri Lanka are facing labour abuses that may amount to forced labour under International Labour Organization (ILO) standards: amnesty.org/en/documents...

🇵🇰On the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling that trials of civilians by military courts are constitutional Amnesty said: "The Supreme Court’s 2025 decision has fundamentally undermined the right to a fair trial and the right to liberty in Pakistan" Read: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

In South Asia, garment workers contend daily with poor working conditions. But when they want to raise their collective voice to demand better conditions, they are ignored; when they try to organize, they are threatened and fired; and when they protest, they are beaten, arrested and shot at.

PAKISTAN: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement activists Hanif Pashteen and Noor Ullah Tareen have been forcibly disappeared since 12 November 2025 after being taken into police custody in Peshawar. Their whereabouts remain unknown. Take action here to call for their release: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

🇵🇰 Seven members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action Co­m­m­­ittee (AAC) have been arbitrarily detained for over 45 days under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism law, solely for peacefully exercising their rights to assembly and expression. 1/5

13 years ago, the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh killed more than 1,100 people - mostly women - and injured 2,500 others. Many of the cause of the disaster continues to affect garment workers today.

PAKISTAN: Ali Wazir has spent nearly 20 months trapped in a cycle of arbitrary detention, repeat cases and re‑arrests designed to keep him behind bars. ✊ Demand his immediate release 📣 Take part in our urgent action appeal 🔗https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA33/0917/2026/en/ #FreeAliWazir

Notice a pattern? The world's most powerful are repeatedly undermining international law and silencing people who oppose them. Everyone deserves a world where leaders put human rights first - every time. We all deserve better. A world where human rights come first, not last. #HumanityMustWin

This week marks the beginning of a new school year in Afghanistan. But girls above the age 12, including university students, remain banned for more than 4 years. 📢 The Taliban must end their discriminatory policies and allow girls to return to school 👉🏼 amn.st/BreakTheSilenceAFG

On 20 March 2025, Bebarg Zehri was taken from his home in Quetta by CTD officials. After a year of unlawful detention, his family fears for his health, safety and liberty. 👉 Join our urgent action to demand the freedom of Baloch activists 📝 amn.st/BalochActivist #ReleaseBalochActivists

🇦🇫/🇵🇰: The Pakistani must "carry out an independent, impartial and timely investigation into the circumstances of [the Kabul rehab centre] strike and the resulting civilian casualties, with the results made public with a view to ensuring accountability." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

PAKISTAN: It’s been nearly one year. 5 Baloch activists, Mahrang Baloch, Bebarg Zehri, Beebow Baloch, Shah Jee Sibghat Ullah and Gulzadi Baloch, remain in unlawful pretrial detention simply for their peaceful activism. 👉 Join our call for their immediate release. 📝 amn.st/BalochActivist

🇵🇰 Pakistan: Investigation urgently needed after killings during Iran protests “The killing of protesters and reports of the use of lethal ammunition by security forces against these assemblies raise serious concerns about unlawful use of force.” READ MORE: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Pakistan: Human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment under Pakistan's Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act on 24 January 2026 for social media posts on X. Demand their release. Take action NOW: amn.st/FreeImanHadi

PAKISTAN: Across Pakistan, students have been at the frontlines of movements for justice, human rights and accountability. 📢 It’s time to lift the ban on student unions in Pakistan. ✊ Stand with students. #RestoreStudentUnions

PAKISTAN: 42-year ban on student unions violates: 📌 Art. 21 of ICCPR, Right to peaceful assembly 📌 Art. 22 of ICCPR, Right to freedom of association 📌 Art. 19 of ICCPR, Right to freedom of expression ✊ Stand with students. 👉 Demand for the ban on student unions to be lifted. #RestoreStudentUnions

PAKISTAN: On this day, 9 February 1984, Pakistan banned student unions, silencing millions of young people across generations. #RestoreStudentUnions

🇵🇰 PAKISTAN: Amnesty International has issued an Urgent Action calling for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha. They are being punished solely for defending human rights. 👉 Take action NOW: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

PAKISTAN: This baseless trial of Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha is a blatant abuse of the justice system. Pakistani authorities must end the judicial harassment and coercive tactics used to silence dissent and intimidate those who defend human rights. More: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

PAKISTAN: Amnesty International writes to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to express grave concerns regarding unlawful detention, harassment and deportation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Read the open letter here: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

PAKISTAN: The 27th amendment to the Constitution, passed in November 2025, marks a significant regression and is part of a direct and sustained assault on judicial independence, right to fair trial and the rule of law in Pakistan. Read here 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

PAKISTAN: Sohrab Barkat, a journalist, was detained by Pakistani authorities last month for alleged criticism of state institutions online. Since then, he has been implicated in three separate cases under Pakistan’s cybercrime law.

PAKISTAN: The repeated use of high-pressure water cannons by authorities against peaceful protesters outside Adiala Jail is a flagrant violation of their right to peaceful assembly. Pakistan must respect people’s right to peacefully protest and end the disproportionate and punitive use of force.

Widespread failings by Nepal’s law enforcement agencies in policing September’s youth-led “Gen-Z” protests resulted in unlawful killings, unnecessary and excessive use of force, and severe injuries. Read more 👇

Widespread failings by #Nepal’s law enforcement agencies in policing September’s youth-led “Gen-Z” protests resulted in unlawful killings, unnecessary and excessive use of force, and severe injuries. Read more in our new briefing👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

À la veille du #BlackFriday, Amnesty alerte sur une industrie textile où les travailleuses sont privées de liberté d'association, confrontées à des salaires de misère et à des violences. Achetez des bougies : https://boutique.amnesty.be/

🚨 The garment industry in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka has thrived for decades on the exploitation of a grossly underpaid, overworked and mostly female workforce. There must be an end to this extractive business model. @amnesty new report: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

PAKISTAN: 10 days since the enforced disappearance of six Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) members, Noorullah Tareen, Hanif Pashteen, Syed Irfanullah, Farman Wazir, Adnan Wazir and Habib Wazir, their whereabouts remain unknown. 1/3 #EndEnforcedDisappearances

🧹 How you clean your home vs. how sanitation workers clean your cities With plungers? Hardly. In Pakistan, sanitation workers face exploitative working structures. 👉 Read more in our report: “Cut us open and see that we bleed like them” www.amnesty.org/en/documents... #WorldToiletDay 🌍

🧤 Sanitation work can be life-saving, essential and dignified. Today is World Toilet Day, but for thousands of sanitation workers in Pakistan, their essential work remains dangerous and devalued. 😷 Workers often have no gloves, masks or safety. #WorldToiletDay 🌍

🧹 What’s in your cleaning kit? For many sanitation workers in Pakistan, the answer is heartbreaking: just sticks and scraps, without any safety equipment. 🙌 As we mark World Toilet Day today, join us in demanding dignity, safety, and protection for sanitation workers. #WorldToiletDay 🌍

📢 Ahead of World Toilet Day tomorrow, we asked people in Pakistan about sanitation workers in their cities. Many of you told us that sanitation workers often work with little to no safety equipment and are exposed to dangerous working conditions — all to keep our cities clean. 🧹 #WorldToiletDay 🌍

PAKISTAN: The abduction of student activist Ghani Aman Chandio on 28 October from Memona Hospital in Karachi, allegedly by state forces, is deeply troubling. The abduction of a father visiting his hospitalized infant daughter is a blatant attack on his rights to liberty, dignity and due process 1/4

The arbitrary manner in which these individuals, including peaceful Baloch activists, have been put on a terrorist watchlist without being given an opportunity to challenge the decision is an affront to due process and their rights to liberty, privacy and freedom of movement. Read more 👇

Pakistan: The arbitrary manner in which these individuals, including peaceful Baloch activists, have been put on a terrorist watchlist is an affront to due process and their rights to liberty, privacy and freedom of movement. Read more here: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

#Bangladesch ist von der #Klimakrise besonders bedroht: Dürren, Zyklone, Überflutungen, extreme Hitze. Arme Menschen, die in der Abwasser- und Abfallentsorgung arbeiten sind durch diese Phänomene direkt betroffen und zusätzlich auch durch Diskriminierung. Besonders Frauen leiden darunter.

Bangladesh's authorities must urgently address their failure to uphold the rights of sanitation workers, who face economic marginalization and entrenched gender- and caste-based discrimination. Read our report 👇

🇧🇩 BANGLADESH: Authorities are failing to uphold the rights of dalit sanitation workers, who face economic marginalization and entrenched gender- and caste-based discrimination, which is only getting worse amid a global climate crisis. Read more in our new report👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Jegliche Verhandlungen mit den Taliban, um zwangsweise Rückführungen nach #Afghanistan zu ermöglichen, sind eine Schande angesichts der anhaltenden, weitverbreiteten, systematischen & schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen durch die De-facto-Behörden der Taliban. www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asie...

PAKISTAN: Responding to the ongoing protests in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir amid a communications blackout in the region: amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

On this #InternationalDayOfOlderPersons, remember: human rights don’t fade with age. Across Pakistan, older people keep working, often without pensions or social protection. Together, we can amplify their voices and demand a world where human rights last a lifetime. #IDOP2025

🇳🇵 Nepal: As an interim govt led by former chief justice Sushila Karki takes charge after youth-led protests & deadly violence, authorities must uphold human rights obligations & address impunity, poor governance & corruption under the rule of law. 🔗Joint statement: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

PAKISTAN: Feroz Baloch, a university student, was abducted on his way to his university library in Rawalpindi. His family is from Balochistan province, but his father sent him to study in Punjab in hopes of a brighter future for his son. #EndEnforcedDisappearances

Bilal Orakzai was forcibly disappeared while returning from a protest in Peshawar on 31 July 2025. His whereabouts are unknown since. Bilal has previously been implicated in criminal cases targeting him for his peaceful activism. #EndEnforcedDisappearances

PAKISTAN: Cousins, Muhammad Asif and Rasheed Baloch, were abducted from a picnic with their friends exactly seven years ago from today, on 31 August 2018. Their family still waits for their return. #EndEnforcedDisappearances

PAKISTAN: This month, on 12 August 2025, Sarwech Sargani was abducted from his home in Karachi. Sarwech and his mother were assaulted by his abductors. His mother believes Sarwech was a target of enforced disappearance because of her activism. #EndEnforcedDisappearances

PAKISTAN: In 2018, Muhammad Ibrar was 17 years old. He would turn 18 in December that year. It was also the year he was abducted from his home. His parents hope he will celebrate his 25th birthday with them. #EndEnforcedDisappearances

PAKISTAN: University professor and father of two girls, Muhammad Awais, was forcibly disappeared from his home in 2016. His daughters are now 10 and 13. They are waiting for their father to return. #EndEnforcedDisappearances

PAKISTAN: Today on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, thousands of families await the return of their loved ones. 🔗 Read our joint statement here with seven other civil society organizations: www.amnesty.org/en/documents... #EndEnforcedDisappearances