Despite the stark challenges currently facing humanity, Amnesty International continues to witness how people from all over the world are demonstrating the importance of activism and the life-changing power of solidarity. From holding governments to account and pursuing justice for survivors of gender-based violence, to freeing human rights defenders, here are some inspiring stories of hope and humanity from the […]
Responding to news that the leader of the National Union for Total Revolution of Angola (UNTRA) Serrote José de Oliveria – whose health has been deteriorating since being held in arbitrary detention since 28 July – has begun a hunger strike to protest his unlawful detention, Amnesty International’s Deputy-Director for East and Southern Africa, Flavia […]
Click to expand Image Jimmy Lai with a copy of Apple Daily’s July 1, 2020, edition in Hong Kong. © 2020 Vincent Yu/AP Photo (New York) – The Hong Kong High Court’s conviction of Jimmy Lai, founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, is the latest marker of Hong Kong’s dramatic shift from respecting press freedoms to […]
Click to expand Image Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski, one of released Belarusian prisoners, smiles as he arrives at the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania, on December 13, 2025. © 2025 Mindaugas Kulbis/AP Photo On December 13, Belarusian authorities released 123 prisoners following negotiations led by the US administration, which had agreed to lift […]
Click to expand Image Local newspapers at a street stall in downtown Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 3, 2021. © 2021 Eduardo Soteras In the latest crackdown on media freedom in Ethiopia, Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany’s international public broadcaster, said in a December 12 statement that the Ethiopian Media Authority had permanently suspended two of its journalists. […]
Click to expand Image Mourners at the funeral for seven victims of the attack on Nkana on November 23, 2025, in Makulu, Democratic Republic of Congo, December 5, 2025. © Private (Nairobi) – Militia fighters killed at least 22 civilians and injured many more in an attack in late November 2025 on a village in […]
Click to expand Image Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman (also known as Ali Kosheib), a former leader of the Sudanese “Janjaweed” militias, waits to learn his sentence from the International Criminal Court following his conviction for war crimes and crimes against humanity, The Hague, Netherlands, December 9, 2025. © 2025 Peter Dejong/AP Photo Last week, […]
Responding to a new Australian law prohibiting children and young people under 16 from using social media, Damini Satija, Programme Director at Amnesty Tech said: “A ban is an ineffective quick fix that’s out of step with the realities of a generation that lives both on and offline. The most effective way to protect children and young people online is by protecting all social media users through better regulation, stronger data protection laws and […]
A year after the enforced disappearance of Steven Medina, Nehemías Arboleda, Josué Arroyo and Ismael Arroyo, their relatives continue to demand justice, truth and reparation. The “four children from Las Malvinas”, as they have become publicly known, were detained on8 December 2024 by members of the armed forces during a security operation in the Las Malvinas community in the city of Guayaquil. Their bodies were found on 24 December 2024 near a military base […]
Against a backdrop of the spread of authoritarian practices, climate collapse and the erosion of international law, Amnesty International is launching its annual Write for Rights campaign on Human Rights Day (10 December) to support the victims of human rights violations and show that humanity can win. This year’s campaign brings people together from around […]
