I want to fight climate chaos. What can I do?
Normally, the coming of spring is a welcome reprieve from long, cold, dark, and, if you’re from British Columbia like me, wet winters. But this year’s coming of spring may […]
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Mining and the Defence of Rights at Risk
Amidst an ever more dangerous climate emergency, communities and their leaders continue to face smear campaigns, criminalization and physical attacks as they courageously defend land, air and water threatened by […]
Political leaders and corporate titans put profit and power ahead of people, betraying promises for fair recovery from pandemic
Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2021 Peddling false promises of a fair recovery from Covid-19 to address deep-seated inequalities world leaders colluded with corporate titans to hoard power […]
Russia: Kremlin’s ruthless crackdown stifles independent journalism and anti-war movement
Independent media blocked, more than 150 journalists have fled the country Facebook and Twitter banned New legislation punishes independent reporting on the war with up to 15 years’ behind bars; […]
Honduras: Amnesty International condemns conviction of six of the ‘Guapinol eight’
February 9, 2022 Today the sentencing court in Trujillo, in the department of Colón, northern Honduras, found six of the eight prisoners of conscience known as the “Guapinol eight”, José […]
Honduras: Amnesty International demands justice for the Guapinol eight
February 3, 2022 After two months on trial in Tocoa, northern Honduras, against the eight prisoners of conscience, José Daniel Márquez, Kelvin Alejandro Romero, José Abelino Cedillo, Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, […]
Honduras: Amnesty International urges authorities to immediately release eight prisoners of conscience
José Daniel Márquez, Kelvin Alejandro Romero, José Abelino Cedillo, Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, Ewer Alexander Cedillo, Orbin Nahún Hernández, Arnol Javier Alemán and Jeremías Martínez Díaz, environmental defenders from the municipality […]
Solidarity Against Environmental Racism in Kanehsatà:ke, Quebéc
Amnesty International has added its voice to a community-led campaign calling on the Federal government to decontaminate a waste disposal site in the Mohawk community of Kanehstatà:ke, just an hour’s drive from Montreal.
Greece: Emblematic search and rescue trial to begin
Spokespeople available in Lesvos and Athens Symbolic solidarity actions in Athens on 15 November at 12 local time (at Syntagma Square) and Brussels at 11 CET on 16 November The trial […]
A Mayan activist was imprisoned after defending a sacred river. He must be released.
By Duncan Tucker Locked up in filthy, overcrowded conditions in a prison system notorious for deadly riots and beheadings, Bernardo Caal Xol is paying the price for standing up to corporate […]
Afghanistan: Few routes to safety for Afghans at risk of Taliban reprisals
Nearly two months since airlift operations in Afghanistan ended, those left behind face formidable obstacles to seeking safety outside the country, Amnesty International said today. In an advocacy briefing, the […]
Geneva: UN must recognize the right to a healthy environment
The UN Human Rights Council should recognize a safe, clean, healthy, and sustainable environment as a universal human right, Amnesty International said today. With millions experiencing hunger and displacement due...