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
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
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
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
Wetʼsuwetʼen land defenders are being criminally prosecuted just for defending their lands. Now they are fighting for its very survival, and the survival of our planet during a global climate crisis. Sign the petition and help them protect their land. Weiterlesen
Anar Mammadli’s state of health has deteriorated considerably in prison. The authorities are refusing to provide the human rights activist and climate campaigner with the necessary medical care. He has been in prison since 29 April 2024 on trumped-up charges and must be released immediately and unconditionally. Weiterlesen
In the arid landscape of Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, thousands of Somali families have sought shelter, fleeing conflict, drought and most recently flooding. Weiterlesen
Leaders at COP29 must listen to demands for climate justice by putting human rights at the heart of all decision making and commit to massively scaling up needs-based climate financing and a full, fast, fair, and funded phase-out of fossil fuels across all sectors, said Amnesty International ahead of the UN climate summit in Azerbaijan. Weiterlesen
With millions of people already displaced by climate change disasters in Africa, the richer countries most responsible for global warming must agree at the COP29 climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan to fully pay for the catastrophic loss of homes and damage to livelihoods taking place across the continent, Amnesty International said. Weiterlesen
