Shell’s Niger Delta pollution: the good, the bad and the ongoing quest for...
By Audrey Gaughran, Amnesty International’s Africa Programme Director This week’s ruling by a Dutch court in a case brought by four Nigerian farmers against the oil company Shell for pollution damage...
View ArticleLi Yan is alive, but still facing execution
By Luisa De Campo from Amnesty International Australia Li Yan is on death row in China for murdering her husband after suffering repeated, horrific abuse at his hands. She could be put to death any day...
View ArticleRead WIRE and take action against the death penalty
“I can’t believe he’s not here anymore,” Lubou Kavalyoua told WIRE about her son, Ulad, who was executed and buried in secret last year. She still doesn’t know where his grave is. Read their story on...
View Article‘Why is the world doing nothing?’– cluster bomb attack by the Syrian army in...
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s Senior Crisis Adviser In a field hospital, which I won’t name for security reasons – too many field hospitals have been bombed already – a little boy of 7,...
View Article“Don’t finance forced evictions”
Top UN housing expert blows the whistle on the World Bank By Joey Hasson, Amnesty’s Campaign Co-ordinator working on slums Right now, over 1,000 people in Lagos, Nigeria, are under threat of being...
View ArticleYouth activists take over Amnesty’s headquarters to do the Obama Harlem Shake!
By Michael Parsons, Activism Unit Assistant Late on a Tuesday in early March, I found myself standing in the middle of a conference room at Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London, UK, surrounded...
View ArticleWhy there is no peace time for women
Widney Brown is senior director for international law and policy at Amnesty International. She will attend the diplomatic conference on the arms trade treaty taking place in New York this month. That...
View Article“We have succeeded by speaking out”
Forced sterilization of Romani women is one of the most horrendous human rights violations and forms of discrimination that Roma have suffered in Europe since their persecution and murder by the...
View ArticleAre states getting cold feet as Arms Trade Treaty talks heat up?
By Widney Brown, Senior Director of International Law and Policy at Amnesty International As the first week draws to a close at the Arms Trade Treaty negotiations being held at the UN in New York,...
View ArticlePrevention is better than cure
By Alberto Estévez, Advocacy Coordinator on the Arms Trade Treaty, International Secretariat of Amnesty International It’s crunch time for human rights. On Friday evening New York time the second draft...
View ArticleThe rhetoric and reality of Roma rights
“It’s about Europe. It’s about you.” So goes the official slogan marking 2013 as the European Year of Citizens. But, if you happen to be one of the European Union’s six million Roma, you might well be...
View Article“We feel a part of this city. We have nowhere to go.” A letter from Wrocław,...
A group of Romani families are on the point of facing a forced eviction by the authorities in Wrocław, Poland. Now, their voice is being heard. Members of the community have written a moving open...
View ArticleBringing home Roma reality to the heart of the EU
On 8 April, we brought home the daily reality for Romani people to the European Union headquarters, when Roma community activists (alongside members of local and international organizations) marked...
View Article“I’m not illegal, I’m a human being”
Ahmed, born in Somalia, has settled in Sweden. He is speaking to the European Parliament today about his dramatic experiences on the way to his new home. He told Amnesty International how he came to be...
View ArticleJournalists remain defiant in Syria despite targeted attacks
On World Press Freedom Day, Noor Al-Bazzaz from Amnesty’s Syria research team describes how Syria’s defiant journalists are under attack from all sides. The Syrian authorities have for decades tried to...
View ArticleRicky, Noris and the dream to escape segregation in Italy
Matteo de Bellis, Amnesty International Campaigner on Italy, has just returned from the country where he visited La Barbuta, a Roma-only camp near Rome. The bus ride I met Ricky, a friendly 10-year-old...
View ArticleViolent evictions a worrying sign for Kenya’s new government
By Gemma Houldey, Amnesty International’s Kenya Researcher At around 4am on Friday 10 May 2013, while members of the newly elected Kenyan government were tucked warmly in their beds, about 400 families...
View ArticleArt mirrors society for Roma in Europe
By Gabriela Hrabanova, European Roma Grassroots Organization (ERGO) Network, and Fotis Filippou, Campaigner for the Human rights here, Roma rights now campaign for Amnesty International “We wanted to...
View Article“You can’t give up; you have to fight for your rights!”
By Catrinel Motoc, Amnesty Campaigner on Romania Nine Romani activists will join Amnesty on 18 June for the launch of its new report, Pushed to the margins: Five stories of Roma forced evictions in...
View ArticleThank you for making a difference!
Yesterday we were proud to deliver an amazing 93,165 petition signatures to the EU Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding, in Brussels, Belgium. Together, we asked...
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