Individuals at Risk
Let us protect those threatened for their identity or beliefs through simple and sustained action.
Amnesty International's Individuals at Risk campaign focuses on protecting those threatened because of their identity or beliefs. Amnesty acts swiftly for tortured persons, threatened defenders and discriminated individuals. We help free prisoners of conscience, people imprisoned for their ideas.
Freedom of expression under attack
Freedom of expression is a human right protected by article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Amnesty International fights to defend this right, supporting those persecuted for their ideas.
Human rights defenders at risk
Amnesty International supports human rights defenders who are at risk because of their work. These courageous individuals fight for justice and equality, and Amnesty stands with them to protect them.
Prisoners of conscience: freeing those unjustly imprisoned
Amnesty International helps free prisoners of conscience, people imprisoned solely for peacefully expressing their ideas or identity. We work to ensure these people are released and their rights are respected.
What you can do
- Join the Urgent Action Network to participate in urgent appeals.
- Visit the online action center to participate in Amnesty campaigns.
- Write letters to defend individuals at risk.
Breaking silence: standing with women in Afghanistan
Three years after the Taliban's return to power, Afghanistan remains a hotbed of uncontrolled and relentless human rights violations. Since August 2021, the de facto Taliban authorities have committed crimes under international law, particularly against women and girls.
Afghan women must not be left alone. Since the Taliban took power in 2021, Afghanistan has entered a downward spiral of human rights violations. Women are banned from all social dimensions of life; torture and mistreatment, arbitrary detention, forced disappearances, censorship, corporal punishments such as whipping continue with complete impunity. Today in Afghanistan there is even stronger talk of apartheid on the grounds of gender, a concept articulated for the first time by Afghan women human rights defenders in the nineties. The international community is failing to take any meaningful action.
What Amnesty asks
Amnesty International urges the Italian government to take concrete action to end gender-based persecution. It calls on the international community to put pressure on the Taliban to respect the rights of women and girls, respond to the application of corporal punishment and establish a mechanism to recognise Taliban responsibility for human rights violations.
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AI-generated content verified against Amnesty International's official sources. Last updated: 2026-04-19
