America – Kogruppe Klimakrise und Menschenrechte

USA: International withdrawals are a vindictive effort to tear apart a global system for cooperation

Responding to the Trump administration’s announcement that the United States is withdrawing from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties, Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Research, Advocacy,...

Canada: Sentencing of land defenders sends ‘chilling message’ about Indigenous rights

The sentencing of three land defenders criminalized by Canada sends a chilling message about the threats facing people and Nations on the front lines...

Inter-American Court sets milestone in the global fight for climate justice

In a historic moment, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion clarifying the specific obligations of states to address the climate crisis through...

Pipeline construction in Canada violates human rights!

Stand up for the land defenders of the Wet'suwet'en Nation and demand an end to the reprisals by the authorities. Please join our email...

Paraguay: Free environmental defender

Vidal Brítez was detained on 26 March in Paso Yobái, Guairá as a reprisal for his defence of a clean, healthy and sustainable environment....

USA: Chilling verdict against Greenpeace sets damaging precedent for protection and promotion of human rights and climate justice

In response to a U.S. jury in North Dakota ordering Greenpeace to pay at least $660m to the fossil fuel company Energy Transfer, having...

Unique climate lawsuit before the Higher Regional Court in Hamm – Saúl Luciano Lliuya demands corporate liability of coal company RWE for climate risks

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...

Amnesty International responds to B.C. court ruling in Indigenous land defenders’ trial

Amnesty International will consider prisoner-of-conscience designations in the cases of three Indigenous land defenders in Canada whose convictions were upheld by a British Columbia...

USA: President Trump must respect human rights in his second term

On the day of the U.S. presidential inauguration, Amnesty International calls on President Donald Trump and his administration to respect human rights obligations in...