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A woman stands at "the View at Palm" overlooking the Palm Jumeirah in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on January 10, 2022. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP by Getty Images)

Troubling Human Rights Record of the United Arab Emirates ahead of COP28

This year, the state host for the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

9 Afro-Latina and Afro-Caribbean women, collectives devoting their lives to justice

Amnesty International is highlighting nine rights defenders and collectives who have devoted their lives to ending inequality and violence....

Honouring National Indigenous History Month 2023

Celebrate Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ land and water defenders during National Indigenous History Month 2023....

IRAN: LGBTI Defender Sentenced to Death

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 5/22 UODATE 1 BELOW Iranian LGBTI rights defender Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and another woman, Elham Choubdar,...

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MEMBER BLOG: Act for climate justice

These days, with the summer sun and strawberry shortcakes giving way to earlier twilight and apple pies, the earth is...

CHINA: No Access to Family and Proper Medical Care

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 284/16, UPDATE 10 BELOW Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “64...

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As temperatures rise, our solidarity action with threatened climate protectors is more important then ever

As government delegations at last November’s UN climate change conference debated what action to take to confront our global climate...

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...

Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Call: Huge thanks for showing you care!

Hundreds of Amnesty members and supporters showed their love and solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land and water defenders this February: you...

Submission to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Militarization of Indigenous Lands

Submission to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Poeples...

How will you contribute to People Power and fight Climate Injustice in 2022?

Stay hopeful by being organized If the hit movie, Don’t Look Up, taught us anything, its that organizing ourselves and...

COP26: Leaders’ catastrophic failure on climate shows they have forgotten who they should serve

At COP26, world leaders chose to ignore and bargain away our rights. People must be at the centre of our...
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