Uniting for Peace in Syria: Global Civil Society Appeal to UN Member States
The UN Security Council has failed Syrians. In almost six years of conflict, close to half a million people have been killed and eleven million have been forced to leave […]
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Your words really did change lives
Write for someone’s life: SIGN UP TODAY FOR WRITE FOR RIGHTS Last year Amnesty supporters across the world wrote an astonishing 3.7 million letters, messages, emails, tweets and much more as […]
Nauru: Australia’s shame and a warning for Europe
By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International , “I have lumps in my breasts, in my throat, and in my uterus…” – Halimeh spoke softly, but as […]
Nauru: Australia’s shame and a warning for Europe
By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International “I have lumps in my breasts, in my throat, and in my uterus…” – Halimeh spoke softly, but as she […]
Upholding the Norms that Protect Humanity
This speech was delivered at the World Humanitarian Summit on 24 May 2016 by Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen: When thinking of how best to […]
Chios chronicle: Here’s how Europe welcomed a young Afghan man who fled the Taliban
By Conor Fortune, News Writer at Amnesty International , You can’t stop a ship dead in its tracks, but sometimes you can change its course. , And that’s what happened […]
Reflection: Empty seats in lifeboats
Today is the 104th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. On this day in 1912, some 1,514 people perished in the frigid waters of the Atlantic. That is […]
Reflection: Empty seats in lifeboats
Today is the 104th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. On this day in 1912, some 1,514 people perished in the frigid waters of the Atlantic. That is […]
Bearing witness: My life in crisis response
Written by Tirana Hassan, Crisis Response Director Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Director Tirana Hassan has spent the last ten years living and working in conflict zones. Here she describes the events […]
Canadian Refugee Champions: Ottawa Mennonite Church Refugee Assistance Program
Written by the Ottawa Mennonite Church Refugee Assistance Program TAKE THE REFUGEES WELCOME HERE PLEDGE Ottawa Mennonite Church (OMC) has been involved with refugee sponsorship since 1979, when Canadians […]
Europe: Tear down these fences
By Gauri van Gulik, Deputy Director for Europe & Central Asia, Amnesty International. Follow Gauri on Twitter @gaurivangulik On 5 March 1946, in a small college gym in Missouri, Winston […]
Europe: Tear down these fences
By Gauri van Gulik, Deputy Director for Europe & Central Asia, Amnesty International. Follow Gauri on Twitter @gaurivangulik , On 5 March 1946, in a small college gym in Missouri, […]
