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...
Europe: New Amnesty briefing analyzes landmark climate judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
Amnesty International has today published a briefing that analyzes three landmark climate judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), issued on 9...
Benin: Prisoners penned into overcrowded, dirty cells denied healthcare amid heatwave
Prisoners in Benin were subjected to filthy, overcrowded cells and denied clean water and medical treatment last year. According to information gathered from health...
Global: What happened at COP28? Essential need-to-knows
Press release | Originally published here | December 14, 2023 The COP28 climate summit in Dubai ended after 14 days with an agreement which...