An agreement at the COP28 summit to end the production and use of fossil fuels is vital to prevent a global climate catastrophe and stop an unprecedented human rights crisis which threatens the rights of billions of people from escalating, Amnesty International said today. In a briefing titled,...

The climate emergency is an unprecedented global human rights crisis. Fossil fuel combustion is the primary cause of climate change, which has been settled science for decades. This briefing provides examples of how the production, transformation and use of fossil fuels – enabled and prolonged by...

In the last five years, the Colombian state has inadequately responded to the dangers faced by human rights defenders in the country, Amnesty International said today upon publishing a new report, Hope at risk: The lack of a safe space to defend human rights in Colombia continues. In light of the...

This document has been prepared by Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, Clean Clothes Campaign, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, European Coalition for Corporate Justice and International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and to provide recommendations on material...

Through its seamless hyper-personalization, TikTok has created an addictive platform, despite mounting evidence of the serious health risks associated with children’s compulsive use of social media. Examining further risks of TikTok’s content targeting, Amnesty International’s research shows that...

TikTok’s highly personalized ‘For You’ feed has helped it to become, in the space of a few years, one of the most popular social media platforms in the world with over 1 billion users, many of whom are children between the ages of 13 and 17. But behind the never-ending feed of lip-syncing and dance...

Ahead of the UK’s AI Safety Summit that begins on Wednesday November 1, Damini Satija, Head of the Algorithmic Accountability Lab at Amnesty International said:  “The UK’s Global Summit on AI safety must set the right example in the global race to regulate AI, and not be led by speculative...

FIFA needs to secure clear and binding commitments to improve human rights in countries likely to host the 2030 and 2034 men’s football World Cup tournaments to prevent serious potential abuses linked to its flagship event, the Sport & Rights Alliance said today.  The warning from the Alliance...

In November 2020, a brutal conflict broke out in northern Ethiopia. In 2021, whistle-blower Frances Haugen said that the Facebook platform was “literally fanning ethnic violence” in places like Ethiopia. This report is based on an investigation into Meta’s role in the serious human rights abuses...

Social media companies must urgently address the fanning of online hate and racism against Palestinian and Jewish communities, Amnesty International said today, as the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories escalates further.  The organization has found an alarming rise in...

Ahead of the next round of trials slated to begin for land defenders from the Wet’suwet’en Nation and their supporters, Amnesty International is calling on the government of British Columbia to immediately drop all the charges.  “Indigenous peoples who have engaged in peaceful actions to defend the...

The Institute for Security Studies estimated that $2.3 billion of dollars is lost annually in Gambia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau due to illegal fishing. Between 2010 and 2020, over 50 fishmeal and fish oil factories opened in the region (in Mauritania, Senegal,...