News
Americas
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Ahead of the tenth anniversary of a judgment that formalized the denationalization of children of people with irregular migratory status, the Dominican Republic must put an end to the structural racism that disproportionately affects tens of thousands of people of Haitian descent, who have been...
September 22, 2023
Education
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Participants will learn about freedom of expression and what happens when this right is violated, through the real case of Ahmed Mansoor who is being arbitrarily detained in dire conditions and in prolonged solitary confinement that amounts to torture. As part of the activity, participants are...
September 22, 2023
Research
Climate change
In this oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council, the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Amnesty International comment on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the implications for human rights of the environmentally sound management and disposal of hazardous substances...
September 22, 2023
Research
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
Amnesty International I delived this statement to HRC54 in solidarity with Women Human Rights Defenders.
September 22, 2023
Research
Climate change
In this joint submission to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Amnesty International and 25 other NGOs demonstrate the important interlinkages between climate action and human rights, and especially how the first Global Stocktake has an important role in enhancing and strengthening the...
September 22, 2023
Education
Europe and Central Asia
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
Participants will learn about the challenges faced by women human rights defenders, the right to health and the importance of access to safe abortion services through the real story of Justyna Wydrzyńska who has been convicted for helping another woman access abortion pills. As part of the...
September 22, 2023
Education
Europe and Central Asia
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Participants will learn how the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly are fundamental to the work of human rights defenders, through the real story of Rita Karasartova who was arrested and charged for speaking up against the government in Kyrgyzstan. As part of the activity,...
September 22, 2023
Education
Africa
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
Participants will learn about the concept of access to adequate housing as a fundamental human right and the struggles faced by human rights defenders through the real story of Thapelo Mohapi and his community in South Africa. As part of the activity, participants are encouraged to write a letter...
September 22, 2023
Education
Asia and the Pacific
Climate change
Participants will learn about Uncle Pabai and Uncle Paul, two community leaders from the Torres Strait Islands in Australia. They are fighting against the impacts of climate change on their livelihood, community and culture and the failure of the Australian government to reduce greenhouse gas...
September 22, 2023
Research
This lealfet explains what the Write for Rights campaign is.
September 22, 2023
Campaigns
Bahrain
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
Bahraini-Danish human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja reinstated his fasting protest on 21 September 2023 after prison authorities reneged on their promises including to transport him and other prisoners to those appointments without handcuffs and in a regular...
September 22, 2023
Education
Americas
Death Penalty
Participants will learn about the death penalty through practical exercises that allow them to understand why it is a violation of the right to life and why it should be abolished. Through the story of Rocky Myers, a Black man sentenced to death in the USA, participants will be encouraged to write...
September 22, 2023