Joe Westby, Demand Dignity Corporate Campaigner, Amnesty International
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Makmid Kamara, Nigeria Campaigner, Amnesty International
As shareholders of Shell are meeting in London and The Netherlands for the company’s Annual General Meeting, hundreds of people in the Niger Delta will hope that their protest a cou…Continue Reading
By Sherif Elsayed-Ali, head of refugee and migrants’ rights
When Amnesty International started more than 50 years ago, our weapon of choice was the pen. Members in their thousands would write letters to governments asking for the…Continue Reading
Makmid Kamara, Nigeria Campaigner, Amnesty International,
On Sunday 22 April, I visited Bodo community in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. The community was devastated by two major oil spills in 2008, caused by operational failures from Shell pipel…Continue Reading
By Bridget Burrows, Africa Regional Campaigner Slums, Amnesty International,
From N’Djamena to Harare, Cairo to Accra, Port Harcourt to Nairobi, thousands of residents of slums and informal settlements and people affected by forced evictions mobilize…Continue Reading
By Creta Ernest & Fekete Petru members of the Coastei Street community,
Support the call for justice of the Roma community forcibly evicted from Coastei Street by taking action
It’s been over a year 76 families, the majority Roma, wer…Continue Reading
By Max Tucker, Amnesty International’s Campaigner on South Caucasus and Ukraine,
One year ago, a series of peaceful protests against government repression in Azerbaijan were met with brute force by the authorities. The clampdown that follo…Continue Reading
By Tessa Murphy, Amnesty International Campaigner in the USA Team,
17th April 2012 marks forty years since Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace were placed in solitary confinement in Louisiana State prison. During these four decades they have been confine…Continue Reading
By Josef Benedict, Indonesia Campaigner, Amnesty International,
Call on Indonesia’s government to release Johan Teterissa and all other prisoners of conscience in the country.
This year marks five years since Johan Teterissa, a teache…Continue Reading
After five months we returned to the city of Cluj – Napoca, in North Western Romania and visited the community forcibly evicted in December 2010. We met again with the inspiring people who have tirelessly fought this injustice ever since. Continue Reading
By an Amnesty International staff member,
South Africa has made great progress in combating the HIV epidemic in the last three years. Yet people in rural communities, particularly women, still struggle to protect their health because of poverty a…Continue Reading
By May Carolan, Communications Coordinator on Security and Human Rights Campaigns at Amnesty International,
Policemen came at 3am; their faces were hidden and they had a list. They were calling out names one by one on the list, and were asking the deta…Continue Reading
By Peter Drury, Colombia campaigner, Amnesty International,
It’s 3:00am, it’s the centre of the village of San José de Apartadó, dominoes are slammed on a table, children play football, cycle around the square, play ludo. There’s a hu…Continue Reading
By Neil Boorman from AmnestyUK,
The Secret Policeman’s Ball is back!
Sunday 4th March at Radio City Music Hall, New York.With Coldplay, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand, Reggie Watts and more to come!
By Jeremy Bloom Campaigner, Central America Team,
Hace cinco días, lanzamos una acción nueva e emocionante – llamando a nuestros miembros e activistas en las redes sociales a enviar un fax a la Fiscal General de Guatemala de parte de la defensora …Continue Reading