16 September marked  one year since Pensador has been arbitrarily detained. We met with his fiancé, Lemba Cahungo, who describes what an entire year, without her partner has been like. Activist Abraão Pedro Santos, AKA Pensador (37) had everything ready and organized for his wedding ceremony in...

What is a crime against humanity?  Crimes against humanity refer to certain crimes committed as part of widespread or systematic attacks against a civilian population. They shock the conscience of humanity itself. The first prosecution using the term occurred when Nazi leaders were tried at...

Fernanda Doz Costa, Director of Gender, Racial Justice, Refugees and Migrants Rights Program at Amnesty International. Hate emails, stigmatization, death threats, stalking, burglaries, attacks, harassment at work and at home. Killings. This is what life is like for many who provide life-saving...

Hussein Baoumi is Foreign Policy advocacy officer at Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office. This opinion piece was originally published here by EUobserver. When I started as a researcher with Amnesty International in 2017, I had just moved to Tunisia, a country that had inspired and...

We created our feminist organization Las Libres (the Free Ones) in 2000 because we wanted to promote women’s rights and be there for those who had been raped. It seemed completely inhuman to think that these girls would have to bring these pregnancies to term. We wanted to make sure their rights...

Uncertainty and human rights violations for Dominicans of Haitian descent By: Elena Lorac, co-coordinator of Movimiento Reconocido It was September 2013. I had managed to get accepted into university, but I still needed the identity card that would actually allow me to take classes. Then in the...

“Being an activist it’s a serious thing in Angola, it’s about life and death” 16 September marks one year since Tanaice Neutro has been arbitrarily detained. We met with his wife, Teresa Cuanga, who describes what an entire year, without her husband has been like. Teresa thought it was the end of a...

By Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International Multiple wars, extreme inequality, a looming climate collapse, and new technologies capable of transforming our very existence have brought humanity to a crossroads. We have no time left for complacency or defeatism—only a shared...

“He wants to see  equality in Angola”   16 September marks one year since Adolfo Campos has been arbitrarily detained. We met with his wife, Rosa Mendes, and their four kids, to hear more about what an entire year, without their father has been like. Rosa Mendes, opened her home and her heart to...

Every child deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive through education. Yet, without additional measures and resources, it is estimated by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs that by 2030, over 300 million students globally will lack basic numeracy and literacy...

By Tania Briseño Oliveros Virginia Laparra is a Guatemalan lawyer who spent two years in prison through an unfair conviction and with whom Amnesty International has maintained a close relationship, having followed her case for several years. In May of this year, a small Amnesty International...

“As a family, we support and encourage his struggle. He wants the best for Angola” 16 September marks one year since Gildo das Ruas has been detained. We met with his partner, his father and brother; they described what an entire year, without Gildo has been like. “I didn’t know that Gildo had been...