In April 2025, Amnesty International released an annual report entitled “The State of the World’s Human Rights” covering human rights concerns during 2024 in 150 countries over the world. At first, the paper broadly touches on global problems of violations of human rights. Important topics of global relevance highlighted in the report include: violations of international humanitarian law during armed conflicts, repression of dissent, violations of refugees’ and migrants’ rights, racial discrimination, gender-based violence, economic and climate injustices, and the misuse of technology to infringe on human rights. Then, the document is divided into reports on human rights conditions in different continents and countries.

The report also covers the state of human rights in Italy. The first of the mentioned violations concern torture and ill-treatment in prisons and detention centers. Amnesty International points out the situation at Cesare Beccaria Juvenile Detention Center in Milan, where a few prison officers had been arrested or prosecuted on terms of allegations of torture against children. The concerns also include  the rising number of suicides among detainees in Italian prisons. 

Amnesty International calls attention to discrimination and gender-based violence in Italy, noting that there were 95 killings of women in domestic violence incidents, with 59 killed by their partners or former partners. Women also face the high number of doctors and other healthcare providers refusing to provide abortion care. In 2024, according to international bodies of UN and CoE, women, Roma people, Africans and people of African descent, migrants and LGBTI people continued to be subjected to racism and discrimination, also by state officials. The European Committee of Social Rights found that Italy had violated the European Social Charter with respect to the right to housing of Roma.

The situation of refugees and migrants in Italy is also one of the concerns of Amnesty International. The scale of the problem is huge, considering that in 2024 over 1700 people died at sea, trying to reach Europe. The report also mentions the coastguards and officers of custom police, who were found guilty of failing to prevent a shipwreck that cost the lives of more than 90 people. The situation of refugees is not better, when they reach Italy. There were cases of unlawful administrative detention by repatriation centers. Amnesty International brings attention to Italy’s cooperation with countries such as Albania, Tunisia and Libya, which has its consequences. The rights of asylum seekers and migrants are often violated by those countries.