In 2017, I fled the conflict in Myanmar at the age of 13 and lived in Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh for nearly six years. Life was difficult for us. We didn’t have enough income. We didn’t have enough space for eight family members. Only two rooms and one kitchen. The World Food Programme (WFP)...
During the 2023–2024 academic year, authorities of the United Arab Emirates and the administration of New York University both acted to suppress and punish freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association at the university’s Abu Dhabi campus in the UAE. Measures taken by the university...
“My husband, Dr Barinem Kiobel, was executed in November 1995. He was an innocent man, but he died as a criminal. He died because he dared stand up to Shell and the Nigerian Government, using his voice for those who couldn’t. Our life in Ogoniland, Nigeria, used to be great. People lived happily;...
On 19 August 2006, the Probo Koala, a cargo ship chartered by the British oil trading company Trafigura, docked at the port of Abdijan with 528 cubic meters of highly toxic waste, with the authorization of Cote d’Ivoire. The chemical waste was then dumped at several sites of the city and its...
Reacting to the start of a technical investigation mission ordered by the Ministry of the Environment of Congo into the Metssa Congo recycling plant located in Vindoulou, Pointe-Noire region, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “We welcome the...
Amnesty International and Mozambique’s Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CDD) have welcomed the sentencing of six police officers at the Mabalane District Court for the shooting of six local residents near Banhine National Park on 3 November 2020. In 2021, Amnesty International called for a...