Amnesty International, Peace Brigades International and Front Line Defenders will be closely monitoring the sentencing this week of Indigenous land defenders who have been criminalized by Canada for protecting unceded Wet’suwet’en Territory against the construction of a fossil-fuel pipelin...
Reacting to the launch of criminal proceedings against exiled opposition figures and members of the Anti-War Committee of Russia – a leading umbrella initiative of Russia’s anti-war movement in exile – on terrorism-related charges Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Easte...
Amnesty International and 34 other organizations released a joint letter welcoming the publication of the agreement between the Brazilian government and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on hosting the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil, between 10-21 November 2...
In response to the attack suffered today, October 13, by Venezuelan human rights defender and asylum seeker Yendri Velásquez, along with another Venezuelan-Colombian activist in Bogotá, Amnesty International stated: “We strongly condemn the attack against our colleague and friend Yendri Ve...
By Sarah Brooks, China Director at Amnesty International Thirty years after the landmark Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, promised to advance women’s rights and empowerment worldwide, governments are once again...
Every year, Amnesty witnesses the power of human rights activism, despite the atrocities the world is facing. With authoritarian practices on the rise, and the genocide in Gaza, climate collapse and the erosion of civil rights dominating the headlines, Amnesty International’s annual Write ...
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign takes place annually around 10 December – Human Rights Day, in celebration of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The campaign mobilizes millions of people worldwide to support individuals and communities faci...
Reacting to the news that Venezuelan democracy activist and opposition leader, María Corina Machado, has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International said: “This is an important recogniti...
Amnesty International warns that the state of exception extended by the government and reforms to the penal system have undermined the rule of law in El Salvador. This is due to the consolidation of a repressive apparatus that, instead of impartially delivering justice, is used as a weapon...
Reacting to the news that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of a ceasefire deal, which reportedly includes the immediate opening of five crossings to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, the rapid release of all living Israeli and other nationals held hostage in Gaza i...