Authorities in Angola released Tiktoker Neth Nahara, who is featured in this year's Write for Rights campaign, along with four other government critics who were imprisoned.

This year people around the world continued to prove that change is possible. From changing laws to ensuring justice prevails, here are Amnesty's human rights successes of 2024.

The court case involves three land defenders criminalized for their efforts to protect the unceded territory of the Wet’suwet’en Nation.

Tunisian lawyer and media personality Sonia Dahmani has been unjustly detained since May 11, 2024, when security forces arrested her at the Tunisian Bar Association’s office in Tunis. She is […]

On November 1, Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi was released from El Harrach prison following a presidential pardon for over 4,000 prisoners. El Kadi, a prominent journalist and founder of […]

Ilham Mahmudi and Taufik, two fishermen from North Sumatra, Indonesia, were convicted of property damage during a protest linked to their environmental activism. They received two-month suspended prison sentences with […]

The former governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province and two other senior army officers must be investigated for possible crimes against humanity committed while suppressing […]

Iranian authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe penalties to […]

Amnesty campaigner writes about her efforts to free Manahel Al-Otaibi Amnesty International campaigner Bissan Fakih writes about her tireless efforts to free Manahel Al-Otaibi, a women’s rights activist in Saudi […]

It's only the second time that Amnesty International's Write for Rights global letter-writing campaign has featured a Canada-focused case.

The #16Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is a global campaign that raises awareness about the systemic nature of gender-based violence. The #16Days of Activism begins on the International Day […]

Verisheh Moradi, a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, faces the death penalty after a deeply unfair trial in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. In November 2024, she was sentenced to death for […]