Human rights victories to celebrate in 2022
We’ve reached the midway point of 2022 and, as ever, it’s been a busy year for Amnesty International. With the world facing human rights challenges on so many fronts, one […]
285 results for 'water defenders'
Industry, Police, and MMIWG2S in Wet’suwet’en Yintah
Jennifer Wickham is a member of Cas Yikh (Grizzly Bear House) in the Gidimt’en (Bear/Wolf) Clan of the Wet’suwet’en people. She currently lives in Gidimt’en yintah in what is now […]
After dam disaster in Colombia, Canada’s EDC talks remedy but fails to provide it
EDC provided financing for Hidroituango megaproject linked to human rights and environmental harm Hidroituango is a hydroelectric dam megaproject financed in part by Canada that has resulted in severe harms […]
YEMEN: Release Journalists at Risk of Execution
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 27/16 UPDATE 5 BELOW On 29 May, the appeal session for four Yemeni journalists sentenced to death, namely, Akram al-Walidi, Abdelkhaleq Amran, Hareth Hamid, and […]
Ecuador: Authorities and companies threaten the Amazon and its Indigenous Peoples
May 4, 2022 Authorities and companies in Ecuador threaten the Amazon through legislation, policies and extractive projects – mainly oil and mining – that have not obtained the free, prior […]
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 […]
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 […]
