Category: Reports & documents

COP30 Climate Change Conference in Brazil – essential need-to-knows for human rights

5. July 2025

The next United Nations annual climate conference, COP30, will take place in Belém, Brazil between 10 and 21 November 2025. It will bring together 198 states and other parties (for example, the European Union) to address the global threat posed by climate change. A preparatory meeting will be held in Bonn, Germany, from 16 to 26 June 2025, where negotiations will begin on commitments to be adopted at COP30. In the context of the upcoming meeting in Bonn, this document provides an overview of Amnesty International’s analysis of key human rights and climate justice issues. This document accompanies Amnesty International’s pre-COP30 advocacy briefing, which provides a full set of our recommendations to the parties to the UN FrameworkConvention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to help them put human rights front and centre of all climate action and decision making at COP30 in Belém, Brazil. Weiterlesen

Fire in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon: girls and young women fighting for climate justice

27. June 2025

At night in the Ecuadorian Amazon, huge flames light up the darkness. Flames from the gas flares that tower over the oil wells and that, far from being a sign of progress, are living scars on the green lungs of our planet. Not only do they burn natural gas, needlessly wasting a non-renewable resource, but they also pollute the air, destroy biodiversity and threaten the lives and rights of nearby communities. Here, environmental justice has been a distant dream for over 57 years, while human rights burn with the gas. Weiterlesen

Human Rights in the Life Cycle of Renewable Energy and Critical Minerals

22. June 2025

Amnesty International welcomes the important initiative taken by the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Climate Change to report on the positive and negative human rights impacts of renewable energy development, including the extraction and re-use of critical minerals.
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Unique climate lawsuit before the Higher Regional Court in Hamm – Saúl Luciano Lliuya demands corporate liability of coal company RWE for climate risks

14. March 2025

On 17.03.2025 and 19.03.2025, oral hearings will take place before the Hamm Higher Regional Court in the groundbreaking case brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl against the energy company RWE. These proceedings are the first to deal with possible liability issues of companies for their contribution to the climate crisis. Following the successful admission of the lawsuit to trial and the comprehensive gathering of evidence in the spring of 2022, the next significant stage in the proceedings will now follow. Weiterlesen

Plenty to go around: Mobilizing finance for climate justice

16. January 2025

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

Philippines: Nickel mining projects approved despite inadequate consultation and serious risks to communities’ health and environment 

12. January 2025
An open pit nickel mine in Palawan, Philippines.

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