Millions of people at protests and events being held worldwide in coming days will call for a halt to the use of fossil fuels, echoing Amnesty International’s view that this is essential to try and prevent the climate catastrophe from escalating. Amnesty International is supporting several of the...

The disproportionate use of criminal law is one of the main threats facing the right to protest peacefully in defense of land, territory and environment in Mexico, Amnesty International said today upon publishing a new report. Mexico: Land and Freedom? Criminalizing defenders of land, territory and...

Over 200 civil society organizations from around the globe have signed a joint open letter calling on all governments attending the annual global conference on climate change, which is being held in Dubai this year, to address the UAE’s human rights record and destructive policies on climate change

In this submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, Amnesty International sets out how the USA continues to fail to live up to its human rights obligations on a range of issues including: the continued use of the death penalty; the use of lethal force by law enforcement; the prevalence of gun...

This document is the Annex to the report, “Powering Change or Business as Usual? Forced Evictions at Industrial Cobalt and Copper Mines in the Democratic Republic of the Congo” (AI Index: AFR 62/7009/2023) and contains correspondence received by Amnesty International and the Initiative for Good...

The world needs to urgently shift away from fossil fuels, which are key drivers of the climate crisis, but at what cost? Powering Change or Business as Usual? documents how many people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been forcibly evicted from their homes and farmland to make way for...

World leaders attending the G20 summit in New Delhi which starts tomorrow must substantially increase international assistance and provide debt relief to vulnerable states to help deliver urgently needed climate justice and avoid a potentially catastrophic failure to safeguard human rights, Amnesty...

Children walking or riding donkeys to fetch water in scorching heat in Yemen

This submission has been prepared by Amnesty International in advance of the consideration by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) at its 74th session of the follow-up to the concluding observations of the Committee on Finland’s seventh periodic report on the...

Amnesty International response to the UN Secretary General’s (UNSG) Advanced Unedited Report released on 8 August 2023 on Promoting inclusive and effective international tax cooperation at the UN. Amnesty International made a submission in relation to this report, calling for a UN tax convention...