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‘They are waiting for us to give up’: Activists face harassment and killings in campaign to protect rivers in Honduras

By Graciela Martínez González, campaigner at Amnesty International’s Latin America Regional Office. This piece was published in Newsweek en español...

"ICJ President Joan Donoghue (C) speaks at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) prior to the verdict announcement in the genocide case against Israel, brought by South Africa, in The Hague on January 26, 2024. The UN top court on January 26, 2024 ordered Israel to allow humanitarian access in Gaza, handing down a landmark decision in a case that has drawn global attention. Israel must take "immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians," ruled the court in its highly anticipated verdict."

Israel must comply with key ICJ ruling to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza

Friday's order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) could help protect against genocide in Gaza, said Amnesty International....
Smoke rising from the buildings in Gaza after Israeli attacks is seen from Israel on January 17, 2024. Photo by Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images

16 leading humanitarian and human rights organizations call to stop arms transfers to Israel, Palestinian armed groups

An Open Call to all UN Member States to stop fuelling the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe...

Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimimark ©Private

Iran: Executions of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimimark plunge into new realms of cruelty

The Iranian authorities’ executions of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimimark after egregiously unfair trials mark a harrowing descent into new...

A woman wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans stands as she gazes toward a river. (Alli McCracken/Amnesty International)

Amnesty International condemns court decision regarding Wet’suwet’en, other Indigenous land defenders

The land defenders have been arbitrarily prosecuted for protecting the rights of the Wet'suwet'en Nation, Amnesty International says....
Men check the damages to the house of the Palestinian Nofal family, who were killed during Israeli bombardment, on January 10, 2024 in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip ©AFP via Getty Images.

ICJ hearings over Israel’s alleged breaches of the Genocide Convention a vital step to help protect Palestinian civilians

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) proceedings on a South Africa legal case alleging that the state of Israel is...

A boat and two homes rest along a dry river bed

2023 was the hottest year on record, underscoring the severity of the climate crisis

The Copernicus Global Climate Report shows that global average temperatures in 2023 reached 14.98ºC, making it the hottest year on...
Virginia Laparra leaves the jail, fists raised in victory

Guatemala: Release of prisoner of conscience Virginia Laparra is a triumph against injustice

Jan 3, 2024 Following the decision of a judge in Guatemala City to authorize the immediate release of Virginia Laparra,...

A carabineros aims his rifle

Chile: Indictment of Ricardo Yáñez, Mario Rozas and another senior Carabineros official is a milestone on the road to truth and justice

January 3, 2024 Amnesty International welcomes the indictment filed by the North Central Regional Prosecutor’s Office against three current and...

A child reacts as people salvage belongings amid the rubble of a damaged building following strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2023, as battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement continue. Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images.

Israel/OPT: Adoption of UN resolution to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza an important but insufficient step   

In response to the United Nations Security Council adoption of a compromise resolution calling for “urgent steps to immediately allow...

People flee from a village after renewed fighting between Myanmar's military and the Arakan Army (AA), an ethnic minority armed group, in Pauktaw Township in western Rakhine State on November 19, 2023. Ongoing clashes between the Arakan Army (AA) and the military "have resulted in the displacement of 26,175 people" across Rakhine, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in an update. Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images.

Myanmar: Military should be investigated for war crimes in response to ‘Operation 1027’

Myanmar’s military has unlawfully killed, arbitrarily detained and stolen from civilians as it struggles to contain the heaviest outburst of...

Israeli soldiers secure an area near the Erez Crossing, near the border with Israel in the Gaza side of the border on December 15, 2023, northern Gaza Strip. As the IDF have pressed into Gaza as part of their campaign to defeat Hamas, they have highlighted the militant group's extensive tunnel network as emblematic of the way the group embeds itself and its military activity in civilian areas. Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images

Urgently investigate inhumane treatment and enforced disappearance of Palestinian detainees from Gaza

Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the fate and whereabouts of Palestinian detainees from the occupied Gaza Strip detained by...

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