33 reasons to be positive about 2016
By Amnesty International Staff It seems like wherever you look, people have written 2016 off as a terrible year. But thanks to you, we’ve found a lot to be positive […]
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How can you use social media to fight for human rights?
Did You Know That Your Social Media Has the Power to End Human Rights Abuses? These days, many government bodies and heads of states have Twitter accounts and Facebook […]
Halting DAPL Should Be Just the First Step in Full Consultation of Indigenous Voices
Following reports that the Army Corps of Engineers will halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Amnesty International USA issued […]
Rosmit Mantilla: detained for almost 1,000 days in Venezuela
By Yaridbel Licón and Victor Molina, Amnesty International Venezuela “I often woke up believing my strength was running out, believing I couldn’t keep going, and then I received photographs of […]
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 […]
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 […]
