By Jeremy Bloom Campaigner, Central America Team,
Five days ago we started an exciting new faxjam action – calling on our members and social media supporters around the world to send a fax to the Attorney General of Guatemala on behalf of human rig…Continue Reading
By Sauro Scarpelli, Campaign Manager of the Individuals at Risk team, Amnesty International
Norma Cruz is a human rights defender who received 47 death threats via text messages sent to her mobile phone. As the leader of women’s rights organization S…Continue Reading
By Enikő Vincze*, Adrian Dohotaru* and Cristina Raţ*, on behalf of the Working Group of Civil Organizations (glOC), Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The 19th of December 2011 was incredibly sunny for the smoggy city of Cluj-Napoca, up on the hills of central Rom…Continue Reading
By Rosalind McKenna, Coordinator, Human Rights in Ireland Programme, Amnesty International Ireland,
Three years on from its adoption, the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights needs five more countri…Continue Reading
By Chekib El-Khiari, Former Prisoner of Conscience
During my period of arbitrary detention, I spent nearly two years and two months in five prisons from the west of the kingdom to the east. It was a period full of rich experiences and valuable lesso…Continue Reading
By Azmina Dhrodia, Programme Assistant – Gender, Sexuality and Identity Programme
I received my first ‘A’ grade for an essay during my second-year university Global Politics class. I think the outrage my essay topic provoked in me might have…Continue Reading
By Anne Sophie Bonefeld, Head of Communication of Amnesty Denmark,
On Saturday, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Salil Shetty, will be one of the key note speakers alongside Aryeh Neier who is the President of the Open Society Foundations…Continue Reading
By Francis Makanda Sakwa, Amnesty International Kenya ‘Gender Defender’ and resident of Mathare slum, Nairobi
I live in an informal settlement. I work, pay taxes, and use the money I earn to raise my children and support my family. Mine is a voice…Continue Reading
By Widney Brown, Senior Director, International Law and Policy, Amnesty International
Technology companies have built their businesses squarely in the sphere of human rights. And their profits reflect the hunger people have for exercising these ri…Continue Reading
By Stephanie Schlitt, Amnesty International’s Researcher and Policy Advisor on Gender
Today, at the United Nations General Assembly, the UN’s expert on the right to health, Anand Grover, will present a ground-breaking report. The report exposes how…Continue Reading
By Heather McGill, Amnesty International researcher on Belarus
A local newspaper in Belarus reported on 20 July this year that Andrei Burdyka and another man had been executed. The authorities, however, were silent. For two months, the families of the…Continue Reading
By Owen Valentine Pringle, Director of Digital Communications, Amnesty International
The visionary co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, who sadly passed away on Wednesday, wanted us to Think Different, in support of the idea that “the people who are craz…Continue Reading
By Barbora Cernusakova and Fotis Filippou, Amnesty International’s EU team
Hundreds of people, the majority Roma, live in a long-standing settlement close to a landfill and a chemical waste dump in Pata Rât, on the periphery of Cluj-Napoca, the thi…Continue Reading
By Heerko Dijksterhuis, Africa Coordinator at Amnesty International Netherlands and Dani Valls, Regional Campaign Coordinator, Africa Programme, Amnesty International International Secretariat
Yesterday was World Habitat Day. In Port Harcourt, Nigeria…Continue Reading
By Alaphia Zoyab, Online Communities Officer for Amnesty International
Amnesty International has written an open letter to all the members of the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) legislative assembly. Our key message is that they raise their voice on huma…Continue Reading