Amnesty & 30 NGOs call on the EU to act following Israel's adoption of a death penalty law that will de facto apply exclusively to Palestinians.
EU has a clear stance against the death penalty & must immediately suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
www.amnesty.eu/news/death-p...
The Iranian authorities are shamelessly encouraging children as young as 12 to join an IRGC run military campaign, putting them in grave danger and violating international law, which prohibits the recruitment and use of children in the military.
Chinese authorities must stop blocking access to medical treatment for land rights activist, Yang Li.
Denying urgent care to a critically ill woman – seemingly in retaliation for her peaceful advocacy – is a violation of China’s duty to respect the right to health of all.
https://bit.ly/4b1pXZC
Amnesty International Canada condemns the killing of Iraqi-Canadian woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed.
Yanar was one of Iraq’s most courageous advocates for women’s rights. Her death is a tremendous loss for the human rights community & for women & girls whose lives she helped protect.
Intensifying hostilities across the Middle East have triggered significant population movement, while clashes along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan have forced thousands of families to flee.
More than 330,000 people have been forcibly displaced.
➡️ www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...
New year, new platform. 👋
Same fight for human rights.
We’re officially on Bluesky — because human rights conversations belong everywhere people care about dignity, freedom, and justice.
Follow along. More to come.
#Venezuela: Amnesty warnt vor Eskalation der Menschenrechtsverletzungen und fordert die USA auf, Uno-Charta und #Völkerrecht zu respektieren.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
This year’s UNHCR #NansenAward honours five heroes bringing hope in crisis.
From Cameroon to Ukraine, their courage shows what it means to stand with displaced people — with dignity, safety and compassion. unh.cr/NDDffU
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We’re back with another year of #Write4Rights!
This International Human Rights Day, join #W4R25, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others: amn.st/633227f5xC ✍️
Conflict & crises. Authoritarian practices & closing civic space. Attacks on the international human rights system.
At 25 years of their partnership, leaders at the EU-AU summit must rise to challenges in both regions & worldwide.
US President Donald Trump issued a memorandum last week directing law enforcement to investigate a sprawling, imaginary conspiracy to foment political violence, with no evidence to substantiate these claims.
This is a serious threat to human rights and democratic institutions.
No more bargaining chips. @amnesty reiterates its call for an immediate ceasefire and unconditional release of all civilian hostages.
Every moment of inaction costs more lives and deepens the horrors civilians are facing.
#ThrowBackThursday: Community voices from Hopley 🗣️💬
Last week, Amnesty International Zimbabwe partnered with All Generations Theatre group to host two community dialogues on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and Obstetric Fistula in Hopley, Harare. 🎭
Malawi: Elections offer an opportunity to end human rights violations
#InCaseYouMissedIt, on 4 September 2025, @amnesty published a human rights manifesto ahead of #Malawi’s presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for 16 September 2025.
Graduation in pictures🎓🌟
Congratulations to the first cohort of Amnesty International Zimbabwe's Activists Circles who graduated last week after a four-day intensive human rights training! 🎉🌟
#PeoplePoweredMovement!✊
PAKISTAN: In 2018, Muhammad Ibrar was 17 years old. He would turn 18 in December that year. It was also the year he was abducted from his home.
His parents hope he will celebrate his 25th birthday with them.
#EndEnforcedDisappearances
“They said we would die”
@amnesty.org new briefing exposes grave abuses in North & South Kivu, DRC.
Gang rapes, summary executions, torture & attacks on health facilities by #M23, Wazalendo & the Congolese army (FARDC).
Many may amount to war crimes. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Two men caned 76 times each by authorities for having consensual sex
This public flogging is a disturbing act of state-sanctioned discrimination and cruelty in Aceh, Indonesia.
Aceh’s regional autonomy must not come at the expense of human rights. Intimate relationships between consenting adults should never be criminalized.
"We are not weak - but the war has broken our bones, and the siege has hollowed out our stomachs"
Read this moving account from an @amnesty.org fieldworker in Gaza: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
New @amnesty investigation finds Israel’s deliberate air strikes on Iran’s Evin prison on 23 June 2025 constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian law and must be criminally investigated as war crimes.
🚨This isn’t history. It’s a plan for our future.
Amnesty UK has exposed powerful & well-funded groups that are working to stop women, LGBTI+ people & children making decisions over our bodies, health & futures.
This matters to all of us as everyone’s rights are at risk.
Join us in exposing them.
Today, EU ministers will decide whether to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement.
Anything less than a suspension will be a greenlight for Israel to continue its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, unlawful occupation of OPT & apartheid.🧵
www.amnesty.eu/news/eu-isra...
Climate action is a human rights obligation NOT a political choice
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' advisory opinion has affirmed that states have an obligation to take immediate, concrete, and positive action to urgently tackle the climate crisis.
Living free from violence is a human right.
A reminder.
The world has come out to celebrate Pride month ✊
These Pride protests show people coming together to fight for the rights of LGBTI people, but not everyone can. In other places, Pride is actively shut down by governments and law enforcement agencies.
#ProtectTheProtest
The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. The climate crisis is a child rights crisis. 🌍⚖️
Children are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and environmental damage worldwide, yet they are the least responsible for this global crisis, which is now threatening their rights.
Since 2017, Amnesty International has been part of a global movement to open up new pathways to safety through community sponsorship. Thanks to this collective effort, more than one million refugees have been welcomed worldwide.
This is Eyad Jaabary (Eddy)'s story ⬇️
The analysis underscores the urgent need to investigate the Israeli military for the war crimes of wanton destruction and collective punishment.
It also provides fresh evidence of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Khuza’a, a town in the Khan Younis governorate, once home to approximately 11,000 Palestinians, has been entirely reduced to rubble in less than two weeks after a significant part of the town had already been destroyed in 2024.
