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  • HUMAN RIGHTS FRIENDLY SCHOOLS

    Amnesty International supports schools and their wider communities in all regions of the world to build a global culture of human rights. Human Rights Friendly Schools aim to empower young people and promote the active participation of all members of the school community to integrate human rights values and principles into all areas of school…

  • FREE JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO FIVE YEARS

    On 2 April, the tribunal of Sidi M’hamed in Algiers convicted prominent Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi to five years in prison, of which two suspended, a fine of 700,000 Algerian dinars (around USD 5,150), and ordered the dissolution of his media company, one of the last media outlets in the country, and a fine…

  • International Women’s Day: Dramatic deterioration in respect for women’s rights and gender equality must be decisively reversed

    Alarming assaults on women’s rights around the world in 2021/22.   Legal protections dismantled, and women human rights defenders now at unprecedented risk.  Protection and promotion of women’s and girls’ rights and support for women human rights defenders crucial, including for Covid-19 recovery.  Governments must act decisively to reverse regressions and uphold human rights for women…

  • Meta’s new content policies risk fueling more mass violence and genocide 

    By Pat de Brún, Head of Big Tech Accountability at Amnesty International and Maung Sawyeddollah, the founder and Executive Director of the Rohingya Students’ Network. Recent content policy announcements by Meta pose a grave threat to vulnerable communities globally and drastically increase the risk that the company will yet again contribute to mass violence and…

  • Youth! Power! Action!

    Young people play a key role in Amnesty International’s vision of a world in which every person enjoys all human rights. The Youth, Power, Action! Global Children and Youth Strategy (2022-2025) sets the direction for Amnesty International’s work for, by and with children and young people. It will be delivered by people from all generations, with children…

  • Uganda: Authorities must respect court decision and immediately free Kizza Besigye and others

    Responding to news that Ugandan opposition politician and former presidential candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political party, Kizza Besigye, has gone on hunger strike and his health is deteriorating, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “Ugandan authorities must immediately respect the Supreme Court order, uphold the…

  • African Union: Incoming leadership must prioritize and stand up for human rights

    As African heads of state and government prepare to elect and appoint the new leadership team of the African Union (AU), including a new chairperson, during the 38th African Union Summit on 15 and 16 February, Amnesty International is calling on the incoming chairperson and the AU to prioritize human rights. The summit comes amid…

  • DRC: Regional leadership needed to prevent further atrocities and hold those suspected of criminal responsibility accountable

    Ahead of the joint summit on 7 and 8 February of the heads of state and government of the East African Community (EAC) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) on the escalation of fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “This special summit on the grave…

  • Iran: Urgent global action needed to halt imminent execution of Kurdish humanitarian worker

    Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence of humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi, 40, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish ethnic minority, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “The international community must immediately urge the Iranian authorities…

  • Global: Google’s shameful decision to reverse its ban on AI for weapons and surveillance is a blow for human rights 

    Responding to Google’s decision to remove its prohibition on artificial intelligence (AI) being used for developing weapons and surveillance tools, Matt Mahmoudi, Researcher and Adviser on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, said:  “It’s a shame that Google has chosen to set this dangerous precedent, after years of recognizing that their AI programme should not be used in ways…

  • Israel/ OPT: President Trump’s claim that US will take over Gaza and forcibly deport Palestinians appalling and unlawful

    Reacting to President Donald Trump’s comments that the USA will “take over the Gaza Strip”, advocating again for the forcible transfer of around 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “President Trump’s remarks calling for the forcible transfer of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip must be…

  • Egypt: Immediately release Badr Mohamed who has served his unjust protest-related sentence

    Ahead of an appeal hearing at the Court of Cassation against Badr Mohamed’s unjust conviction and five-year prison sentence in connection to the Ramsis Square protests on 16 August 2013, when he was 17 years old, Amnesty International’s Egypt Campaigner, Souleimene Benghazi, said: “Amnesty International has long called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release…