By Lucy Macnamara, Communications Manager – Art for Amnesty
The concerts here in Buenos Aires have proved to be pretty exciting! Some fantastic campaigning by Amnesty Argentina volunteers meant that we have smashed through our target of 100,000…Continue Reading
Lucy Macnamara, Communications Manager, Art for Amnesty
I’m back with Amnesty International on the U2 360 tour, kicking off the first concert of the Latin America leg here at the Estadio Nacioal in Santiago, Chile. It’s an infamous stadium with a…Continue Reading
By David Nickols, Senior Executive Officer, EU Foreign Policy, Amnesty International
Last week the EU institutions office in Brussels hosted Patches Rhode and Joshua Ladner, the mother and brother of Brandon Rhode, who was executed by lethal injection…Continue Reading
By Lucy Macnamara, Demand Dignity Campaign Co-ordinator at Amnesty International
Demand Dignity is back on tour with U2, here in South Africa!
Last night, the concert experience in Johannesburg was simply breathtaking on so many levels. U2 hadn’t p…Continue Reading
Amnesty International’s expert on Haiti, Gerardo Ducos, reports on the grim living conditions at a camp for people displaced by the earthquake in Port au Prince.
By Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui from Amnesty International’s North Africa team
In the middle of dealing with a month of unrest in Tunisia and 24 hours of protests that toppled the Tunisian government, I received a phone call from a woman I met with in…Continue Reading
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s North Africa researcher
Tunis, Saturday 15 January 2011
It was extremely calm, almost serene in Tunis this morning. It was hard to believe that only yesterday, thousands marched in the same streets calling…Continue Reading
By Altantuya Batdorj, Director of Amnesty International Mongolia
Myself and many others in Mongolia were delighted with the news that the UN General Assembly adopted, with increased support, the third resolution calling for a moratorium on executions o…Continue Reading
By Valentine Sebile, coordinator of Amnesty International’s 16 Days of Activism campaign
The 16 Days of Activism is an international campaign aimed at raising awareness of gender-based violence. It started on 25 November and ended on Friday 10 Decem…Continue Reading
By Roger Minoungou, co-ordinator for growth and activism, Amnesty International Burkina Faso
Write for Rights.
Since Saturday 4 December, the Letter Writing Marathon has been in full swing for Amnesty International Burkina Faso.
The Letter Writing M…Continue Reading
A fin de aumentar la sensibilización en torno a la campaña Escribe por los derechos de este mes, Ana María Pizarro, defensora de los derechos de las mujeres en Nicaragua, recuerda cómo los mensajes de esperanza y apoyo que llegaron de todo el mun…Continue Reading
By Emily Nevins, Head of Amnesty International’s Delegation to COP16
“We owe it to our daughters and grand-daughters” – Patricia Espinoza, President of COP16
Monday marked the start of week two of the COP16 climate change negotiations, wh…Continue Reading
By Valentine Sebile, coordinator of Amnesty International’s 16 Days of Activism campaign
The 16 Days of Activism is an international campaign that aims at raising awareness of gender-based violence. It started on 25 November and ends on 10 December…Continue Reading
By Valentine Sebile, coordinator of Amnesty International’s 16 Days of Activism campaign
If you tried I bet you could list at least three examples of violence against women in your daily life. Think about those examples: Who is telling women how…Continue Reading
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By Haider Kikabhoy, Amnesty International campaigner on Myanmar
On 7 November 2010, the Myanmar government will hold elections for the first time in 20 years. The polls wil…Continue Reading