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Yuly Velasquez travels in a boat on the river

‘We continue to risk our lives defending Colombia’s rivers and wetlands’

By Colombian water defender Yuly Velásquez Briceño * Rivers and wetlands have always held great significance for me. They are a...

Kosivashchina, Sumy region, 7 November 2023. Panova Valentyna social worker with Vira Hodun. Photo by Amnesty International.

Ukraine: Russian invasion has forced older people with disabilities to endure isolation and neglect – new report

Displaced older people with disabilities in Ukraine are physically and financially unable to access adequate housing and care amid Russia’s...

Palestinian citizens inspect the destruction caused by air strikes on their homes on December 01, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Israel steps up military operations in Gaza after a sustained truce between Hamas and Israel did not hold further than a week despite diplomatic talks and captives released. (Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)

ISRAEL/OPT:  Urgent need for a sustained ceasefire to end civilian bloodshed and mass suffering as fighting resumes

Reacting to the resumption of attacks by Israel in the occupied Gaza Strip and rocket fire from armed groups into...

April 2023: Shabnam Salehi testifies in Canada's Parliament in support of bill C-41, a legislation enabling humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. Shabnam placed emphasis on specific aid to prioritize women's empowerment and equal access (Photo: Shabnam Salehi)

Breaking Silence: Transnational Advocacy and Gender Based Violence in Afghanistan

Shabnam Salehi is a fellow and researcher at the University of Ottawa a former professor at Kabul University, and a...

Amnesty International Sweden activists call for a ceasefire by all parties in Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip

European governments donors’ discriminatory funding restrictions to Palestinian civil society risk deepening human rights crisis

Announcements by a number of European countries and the European Commission to restrict funding to Palestinian civil society and human...

A participant holds a candle as demonstrators protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in solidarity with protesters in China on December 3, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Protests have been occurring in cities across China recently over the country's ongoing intense Covid lockdowns. A common feature has included protesters holding up blank sheets of A4 paper to symbolize China's heavy-handed enforcement against free speech. (Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images)

China’s White Paper Movement: One year on, six protesters share their stories

On 24 November 2022, at least 10 people died in an apartment fire in the city of Urumqi, northwest China....

Women protest holding signs that read "Gender-Based Violence is a Pandemic" and "Say Their Names"

TAKE ACTION DURING THE #16DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Join Amnesty International Canada in taking action during the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence that starts on November...

Geraldina Lopez holds up photos of women she represents

Wendy Geraldina López: “In Guatemala, women are under attack”

Wendy Geraldina López Rosales is a Maya Kaqchikel lawyer and human rights defender. She has worked with the Human Rights...

A woman sits in a small boat on a river while wearing a blue and read long-sleeve shirt and a neon green and grey life jacket.

Americas: States must ensure an environment conducive to the work of climate, land defenders

Amnesty International has released a new report in the lead-up to COP28 about threats facing environment and land defenders in...

It’s hunting season against justice officials in Guatemala

By Adeline Neau and Josefina Salomon* Guatemalan lawyer Flor de María Gálvez Álvarez still struggles to see herself as a...

People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, as fighting continues in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals, on April 29, 2023. - At least 96 people were reported to have been killed in El Geneina this week, the UN said, as fierce fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries entered a third week, violating a renewed truce. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Sudan: Civilians suffering ‘unimaginable horror’ amid ethnically motivated violence in Darfur 

Survivors and witnesses of a series of ethnically motivated attacks by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militias in...

DEIR AL BALAH, GAZA - NOVEMBER 21: Residents make search and rescue efforts following an Israeli attack on a house belonging to the al-Haj family at the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on November 21, 2023. (Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Israel/ OPT: Deal to release hostages and prisoners must pave way for further releases and a sustained ceasefire

Responding to the news that a deal has been agreed to release at least 50 hostages, mostly Israeli women and...

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