Because of their commitment to protecting the environment and human habitats, 13 female activists from the Amazon region are in danger. The girls and young women, aged between 10 and 19, belong to the group Guerreras por la Amazonía (GxA). Some of them come from indigenous communities. In 2021, with the support of the organization Weiterlesen
On September 14, 2024, environmental activist Juan López was shot dead in the municipality of Tocoa. The alleged perpetrator and two people accused of complicity are facing murder charges and are in custody. However, the masterminds behind the crime have not yet been identified. Amnesty will continue to urge the Honduran authorities to ensure full Weiterlesen
Vidal Brítez was detained on 26 March in Paso Yobái, Guairá as a reprisal for his defence of a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The Prosecutor’s Office is pursuing alleged acts of serious coercion for an incident in which he did not take part. We are urging the Prosecutor’s Office to respect Mr Brítez’s procedural Weiterlesen
The land of the Wet’suwet’en Nation is located in the Canadian province of British Columbia (B.C.). For years, the indigenous land defenders have been peacefully resisting the construction of a liquified natural gas pipeline by Coastal GasLink on their land. They have never agreed to this construction. They are protesting for the protection of forests Weiterlesen
On February 15, 2024, the Colombian fishing and environmental association FEDEPESAN announced that its members would be forced to collectively move away from the areas they inhabit in the lakes and rivers around the city of Barrancabermeja. In recent years and also in the first two months of 2025, members of FEDEPESAN have been subjected to numerous harassments, threats, robberies, extortions and even assassination attempts by armed groups seeking control of the waters for their own benefit or retaliating against FEDEPESAN for denouncing possible cases of pollution and corruption. Amnesty International is calling on the Colombian police to ensure the safety of FEDEPESAN members and prevent their displacement. Weiterlesen
On 30 November 2024 and again on 2 January 2025, the civil society organization CREDHOS publicly denounced assassination plans by the armed group EGC against its president Iván Madero. Civil society organizations working for human rights, land rights and environmental protection in the northern Colombian region of Magdalena Medio, including CREDHOS and FEDEPESAN, have been Weiterlesen
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
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
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
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
