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 […]
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Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn and others must resist China’s Orwellian vision of the internet
By Roseann Rife, East Asia Research Director at Amnesty International Facebook, Microsoft, and LinkedIn are among the tech firms expected to be on a charm offensive with Chinese officials at […]
We Defend the Land with Our Blood
Everyday across the globe, men, women and youth speak out in defence of the land and environment. They defend our planet and thanks to their work, we have clean air […]
Human rights victory in the struggle to #MakeMuskratRight
In an extraordinary victory for Indigenous rights and environmental protection, the government of Newfoundland and Labrador has agreed to measures to reduce immediate risks to Inuit health and culture from the […]
It is time for a human rights based approach to national security
By Alex Neve, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada. Human rights or security? In Canada and around the world the debate rages on; but it is an utterly false debate. […]
Feyisa Lilesa sheds light on abuses in Ethiopia
By Gloria Nafziger: Refugee and Migrant Rights Coodinator On August 21, as Silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa finished a marathon at the Rio Olympics, he crossed his arms above his head […]
How fear of surveillance is forcing activists to hide from public life in Belarus
By Joshua Franco, Technology and Human Rights Researcher at Amnesty International “In principle if I am talking indoors, or on the phone, or writing emails, I assume it all gets […]
“I will never stop” – a mother’s campaign to free her son in Iran
By Ezat Taheri, Canada, 4 May 2016, 11:16 UTC Iranian spiritual teacher and prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri has been in pre-trial solitary confinement for five years, and has launched over a […]
Sole witness to Berta Cáceres murder: “It was clear she was going to get killed”
By Josefina Salomón, News Writer at Amnesty International The armed men who burst into the house of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres on 3 March had a simple plan: find […]
A miscarriage of justice in Argentina: #FreeBelen
Fernanda Doz Costa, researcher on the Americas, reports from a protest outside a court in Argentina where “Belen” returns after being sentenced to eight years following a miscarriage. It […]
8 reasons why we still need International Women’s Day (and what you can do about it!)
International Women’s Day, March 8, is a rallying point for feminists worldwide. Established by the United Nations in 1975, it is a day to celebrate women’s achievements while highlighting remaining […]
Egypt’s courageous few fighting for human rights
By Mohamed Lotfy, Executive director of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms and former researcher for Amnesty International. Never before in my 10-year career has working on human rights […]