Press release – Kogruppe Klimakrise und Menschenrechte

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...

Global: Nigerian residents take Shell to UK High court following 10-year fight for justice

After a decade-long fight for justice, the Preliminary Issues Trial of Nigerian Law for Shell vs Ogale and Bille communities is set to take...

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...

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...

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:

COP29: Leaders must commit to fair climate financing and fully phasing out fossil fuels

Leaders at COP29 must listen to demands for climate justice by putting human rights at the heart of all decision making and commit to...

Africa: Richer countries must commit to pay at COP29 as climate change forcibly displaces millions across Africa

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: States must press Azerbaijani authorities to end assault on civil society

In the leadup to next month’s COP29 climate summit in Baku, states must exert pressure on the Azerbaijani authorities to reverse their clampdown on...

Americas: Record wildfires in South America Require an Unprecedented Response

In response to record fires across South America, with several millions of hectares burning across the Amazon basin and the entire continent, Amnesty International...

We must act globally to safeguard the future of humanity

By Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International Multiple wars, extreme inequality, a looming climate collapse, and new technologies capable of transforming our very...

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