Campaigns
Americas
Exploitation of Natural Resources
Bill 2903/2023 is set to be voted in coming days by the Senate. The bill – approved on May 30 by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies – seeks to make profound changes in the demarcation process of indigenous lands, and legitimize the “Temporal Landmark thesis”, whereby Indigenous peoples...
June 5, 2023
Research
United Arab Emirates
Armed Conflict
This year, the state host for the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the United Arab Emirates. To have a successful COP28 that takes humanity off the path of climate crisis, the conference requires open civic space for criticism and...
June 1, 2023
News
Africa
Business and Human Rights
The Gambian government must take all necessary steps to eliminate illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing (IUUF), combat overfishing, and increase the transparency of fishing agreements to protect local communities in The Gambia, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The new...
May 31, 2023
Research
Africa
Business and Human Rights
Fish is an essential resource for Gambia and Gambians. The communities in coastal towns in Gambia such as Sanyang rely heavily on pelagic fishes for their daily protein intake, as well as their economic activities. However, the fishing industry in the country has been subjected to increasing...
May 31, 2023
Research
Africa
Business and Human Rights
Nigeria’s new government under President Bola Tinubu will be sworn in on 29 May 2023. In this new report, Amnesty International explains why the incoming administration must ensure that the oil multinational, Shell and the planned divestment of its onshore oil interests in the Niger Delta does not...
May 26, 2023
News
Africa
Business and Human Rights
Nigeria’s new government, which will be sworn in on 29 May, must ensure that Shell’s planned sale of its operations in the Niger Delta, does not lead to a further deterioration in human rights in a region blighted by decades of oil pollution
May 26, 2023
Research
Middle East and North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue their sustained assault on human rights and freedoms, including targeting human rights activists, enacting repressive laws, and using the criminal justice system as a tool to eliminate the human rights movement. These policies have led to the...
May 1, 2023
Campaigns
Americas
Exploitation of Natural Resources
On 10 April, at around 5:30 pm, an explosive device was found 5 meters away from the front door of the office of the Santander’s (North) Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (CREDHOS in Spanish) According to the National Police, the explosive artefact was placed by the National...
April 20, 2023
Research
Africa
Exploitation of Natural Resources
A group of 146 civil society organisations today express their serious concern about the legal proceedings filed in the Democratic Republic of Congo by Israeli businessman Dan Gertler against Congo’s leading anti-corruption coalition, Le Congo n’est pas à Vendre (Congo is Not for Sale or CNPAV)....
April 17, 2023
News
Americas
Asylum
• The number of migrant children crossing the dangerous Darien Gap between Colombia and Panama on foot hit an all-time high, with UNICEF counting 32,488 children from January to October.
March 28, 2023
News
Saudi Arabia
Business and Human Rights
The US$161.1 billion annual profit posted today by the Saudi Arabian state-backed oil company Saudi Aramco, the most ever disclosed by a company in a single year, should be used to fund a human rights-based transition to renewable energy, Amnesty International said. Agnès Callamard, Amnesty...
March 12, 2023
News
Canada
Discrimination
Background As we begin yet another year, the Wet’suwet’en land defenders are still under continued surveillance and criminalization by the British Columbia (B.C.) provincial government and the Canadian federal government. At the source of the struggle is, the Coastal GasLink’s (CGL) pipeline...
March 1, 2023