Agnès Callamard is the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. She is also the Director of Columbia University's Global Freedom of Expression project. Read More
As the UN's long-awaited trip got underway, the rights group urged the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to address crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations when her team visits China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Regi ...
More than a month has passed since the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan but the state of affairs in the troubled country doesn't appear to be any different from what was witnessed in the 1990s. ...
Amid the Taliban's "ethnic cleansing" bid, a new investigation by Amnesty International revealed that 13 Hazaras, including nine former government soldiers and a 17-year-old girl were among the Afghans executed by the group on August 30. ...
While the year 2020 witnessed an overall decrease in the number of global death penalties, some countries increased the number of executions they carried out amidst the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report by a rig ...
