January As a tribute to Julián Carrillo, an environmental rights defender killed in October 2018, we launched Caught between bullets and neglect, a digest on Mexico’s failure to protect environmental human rights defenders. Just a few hours after the launch, two suspects in Julián’s...

Our global letter-writing marathon is  now more than 15 years old, and bigger and better than ever before. It started in Poland with a young man trying to impress a young woman. He met her at a festival and she told him about 24-hour events she’d been to in Africa, where people wrote letters of...

  In Sudan, 80 political opposition supporters and human rights defenders were released in February. This followed intense campaigning by us and others, after at least 140 people had been arbitrarily arrested by the Sudanese Intelligence and Security Service in January and February. They were all...

Change is possible, especially when people come together and take action. From writing letters of support and campaigning outside corporate headquarters, to welcoming refugees into our homes and changing laws for the better, hope overcame fear time and time again in 2017 – and it was all thanks...

Nigeria’s Esther Kiobel is taking on Shell, one of the world’s biggest oil companies, in a final fight for justice over her husband’s killing. She’s pursued the company for 22 years, accusing Shell of colluding in her husband’s 1995 execution. Esther is taking Shell to court in the...

Put simply, without the support of people like you, we couldn’t achieve the many things we do year in and year out. It’s thanks to your action, your determination and your continuous support that Amnesty can transform the lives of people and communities worldwide. Here’s what so many of you...

As we get ready for Write for Rights 2015, our global letter-writing marathon, we look at how your words and ongoing campaigning made change happen after the 2014 campaign.     Moses Akatugba, Nigeria. © HURSDEF 1. Freedom in Nigeria The Governor of Delta State responded to pressure from...

One year ago, Amnesty International launched a global campaign to Stop Torture. And it’s working. We have shone a light on torture taking place in Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Uzbekistan. In each of these countries we have campaigned alongside families of torture survivors and...

By Louisa Anderson and Justine Ijeomah After 10 years in jail, and over 800,000 messages from activists around the world, Moses’ life has been spared. Here, we speak to Justine Ijeomah, Director of the Human Rights, Social Development and Environmental Foundation (HURSDEF) in Nigeria and...