Ahead of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, which begins on 20 January, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said… Weiterlesen
Davos: Rich and powerful must uphold their responsibility to safeguard humanity
Plenty to go around: Mobilizing finance for climate justice
On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos and following the disastrous outcome of negotiations on a new climate finance target at COP29 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Baku, Azerbaijan in November 2024, this document explains how fair taxation and responsible financing can play a key role in raising a significant amount of finance that is urgently needed to address the climate crisis, particularly for lower-income countries. Rapid progress must be made in 2025 at the Fourth Financing for Development Forum and in the development of the binding UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. Weiterlesen
Mahnwache für die Landverteidiger*innen in Kanada in Hannover
- Date30. March 2025 15:00 – 18:00 Uhr
- Hannover Messe
Anlässlich der Hannover Messe 2025 plant die Koordinationsgruppe “Menschenrechte und indigene Völker” gemeinsam mit der lokalen Gruppe in Hannover (Gruppe 1017) eine Mahnwache vor dem Kongress-Zentrum, da Kanada Partnerland der Messe ist. Gemeinsam wollen wir auf die Situation der kriminalisierten Landverteidiger*innen der indigenen Wet’suwet’en Nation in British Columbia aufmerksam machen und unsere Solidarität mit ihnen Weiterlesen
Philippines: Nickel mining projects approved despite inadequate consultation and serious risks to communities’ health and environment
Indigenous Peoples and rural communities in the Philippines are being subjected to numerous human rights abuses amid a rapid expansion in the mining of nickel, an essential component of lithium-ion batteries, Amnesty International said today in a new report highlighting the human cost of rising global demand for electric vehicles. Weiterlesen
Azerbaijan: Release journalists arrested after COP29
On 6 December, in the aftermath of UN Climate Change conference COP29 held in Baku, Azerbaijani authorities detained seven journalists and media workers on spurious charges of “smuggling”, which carry prison sentences from 5-8 years. Their arbitrary detention and prosecution is a reprisal for their journalistic work and part of the government’s crackdown on critical Weiterlesen
Argentina: Joel Paredes – Blinded in one eye by police violence during peaceful demonstration
29-year-old Joel Paredes lost his right eye to a rubber bullet fired by the police while taking part in a peaceful demonstration in Argentina. Do you support our call to bring those responsible for Joel’s blindness to justice? Weiterlesen
COP29: Finance target is a blueprint for inequalities and violations
The derisory new climate finance target agreed at the close of COP29 in Azerbaijan will put the human rights of billions of people at risk and perpetuate global inequalities, Amnesty International said today. Following days of protracted and opaque negotiations in Baku, the conference ended yesterday with an agreement by high-income countries to mobilize USD300 billion annually by 2035, to help lower-income countries address the escalating climate crisis. Weiterlesen
COP29: Climate negotiation drafts are an affront to human rights
Reacting to this morning’s release of several draft decision texts at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Climate Justice Advisor, said: Weiterlesen
Canada: Halt pipeline project with outdated permit
An environmental assessment certificate for the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) liquified natural gas pipeline project expires on 25 November 2024. In 2014, the government approved the certificate even though it found that the project would have significant adverse effects and increase greenhouse gas emissions. Since then, the pipeline route, which goes through several Indigenous Nation’s unceded, ancestral territories, has changed. The indefinite extension of the certificate puts everyone’s right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment and Indigenous Peoples’ ways of life at risk. We call for a new assessment to be conducted, in full consultation with the Indigenous Peoples along the pipeline route. Weiterlesen
Free environmental lawyer Đăng Đình Bách
Environmental lawyer Đăng Đình Bách dedicates his life to protecting people in Viet Nam from pollution and the climate crisis. On 24 June 2021, he was arrested for alleged tax evasion, a tactic used by the authorities to silence environmental activists. He was sentenced to five years in prison. Sign the petition and call on Viet Nam to free Bach immediately. Weiterlesen