This document outlines five key human rights issues we are urging candidates, and therefore Fiji’s future government, to prioritize. Fiji’s elections are scheduled for 14 December 2022.

Reacting to the outcome of COP27, Chiara Liguori, Amnesty International’s Climate Justice Adviser said: “This was a tale of two COPs: joy at the adoption of a Loss and Damage fund but anguish that, despite overwhelming scientific evidence and escalating human rights impacts, the negotiations failed...

Six months after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office, his government has yet to make good on its promises to guarantee justice and security for the people of Somalia. Amnesty International is today presenting the Somali government with a 10-point plan, outlining the steps it must take to...

This public statement is to urge President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and his new administration to address many of the Somalia’s outstanding human rights challenges, with international support. The new government has already presented goals and activities across six pillars, including security,...

As world leaders are meeting to discuss climate and economic cooperation at COP27 and the G20, justice and support for those living at the intersections of climate and economic crises in Pakistan must be at the top of the agenda. This statement is focussed on the human rights obligations of the...

In Mexico, the story of renewable energy goes hand in hand with colonial practices of dispossession and violation of the collective rights of Indigenous Peoples. In the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow stretch of Mexican territory that separates the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean, the...

On the eve of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), Amnesty International released a report on the impact of climate change on the human rights of eight communities around the world. One of these eight case studies was conducted with the...

Climate change is not only the greatest environmental emergency of our time, but also an unprecedented human rights crisis. It threatens a wide range of human rights, including the rights to water, food, health, and life itself. The climate crisis disproportionately affects people who are already...

With the latest reports stating that the world is hurtling toward global warming levels of at least 2.5°C, a new briefing by Amnesty International illustrates the devastation that the climate crisis is already causing. Ahead of COP27, the organization is urging all state parties to the UN Framework...

The Global Biodiversity Framework, to be negotiated at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), contains a proposal to commit states to declaring 30% of the Earth’s land and sea mass as protected areas for conservation purposes, by 2030. This is the...

The climate crisis is upon us. Despite repeated scientific warnings, state climate action is lagging far behind what is needed to protect human rights. This report showcases communities’ experiences in seven brief case studies to provide a snapshot of how climate change negatively affects the...

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard will attend the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Sharm El-Sheikh between 6-18 November 2022 and is available for interviews about the need to centre climate decisions in human rights and Egypt’s ongoing human rights crisis. In...