In Malta, three youths risk life in prison for their roles in helping fellow asylum-seekers escape torture. Call for justice for The El Hiblu 3.  Take action now and sign the petition! Call on the Maltese Attorney General to:  Drop all charges...

Students peacefully celebrating LGBTI+ PRIDE in Ankara, Turkey were met with police brutality and charges of “unlawful assembly”. They must be acquitted.  Take action now, sign the petition and remind the Minister of Justice:  That the 18 METU students and the academic on trial must be...

Germain Rukuki has risked everything to campaign against torture in Burundi. Because of his human rights work, he is serving a 32-year prison sentence. Take action now! Sign the petition and demand Germain is released unconditionally now. On 17 July 2019, an appeal court confirmed Germain’s...

Nassima is in prison for her work defending women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. She goes months without seeing her children or lawyer. Sign the petition now to demand her freedom. Tell King Salman of Saudi Arabia to: Immediately and unconditionally release Nassima al-Sada and all...

When we all act together, we are more powerful. That is the driving force behind Write for Rights, Amnesty’s global campaign and the world’s biggest human rights event. The people you are helping today want to make the word a better place. They are demanding justice, and human rights for all. Many...

Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to make this submission concerning an Action Plan to implement the European Pillar of Social Rights (‘EPSR’) in response to the European Commission’s public consultation. The submission focuses on four major issues: Align the EPSR as far as possible...

To: Ms Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President A Europe Fit for the Digital Age and Competition European Commission Friday, 27 November 2020 Dear Executive Vice-President Vestager, I am writing to you to raise Amnesty International’s serious concerns over Google’s planned takeover of the...

Amnesty International highlights Germain Rukuki’s case in its flagship annual letter-writing campaign The Burundian authorities must overturn human rights defender Germain Rukuki’s conviction and release him immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today as it launched its annual...

Brussels, 19 November 2020 Dear Members of the Trade, Health and Development Committees of the European Parliament,Dear Members of National Parliaments of European Union member states, We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call on you to take actions in your capacity as a parliamentary...

Amnesty International today launches the world’s biggest human rights campaign, calling on governments to put right injustices against individuals who are detained or persecuted in countries across the globe. Every December people around the world write millions of letters, emails,...

by Amnesty International, the Baku Human Rights Club, the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre, the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre, the European Implementation Network, the Human Rights House Foundation, the International Partnership for Human Rights, the Legal Education Society...

The European Ombudsman’s Office has today announced that it will open an inquiry into the possible failure of the European Commission to ensure that Croatian authorities respected fundamental rights while conducting EU-funded border operations against migrants and refugees. Commenting on the...