🚨A NEW POLL released by @amnesty.org & @globalwitness.org suggests majority of Europeans favour human rights & environmental protection yet @ec.europa.eu is trying to roll these back #EU #CSDDD #HumanRights #climatejustice 🧵 Full results here: amn.st/eupublicopin... [1/8]

Amnesty International publishes new briefing calling for states and companies to confront the global political economy underpinning Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid. See the full article here 👇 www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Amnesty is proud to stand with many many others in calling out the few who plunder the earth at the expense of the majority. Human rights are not for sale, nor is the planet on which we all depend. @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social

Riva Jalipa is a Researcher in Amnesty International’s Economic & Social Justice team. In this article, Riva makes the case for reforming global financial systems, reparative justice & economic & fiscal sovereignty for low-income countries. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...

Amnesty International responds to the recently published letters from seven UN Special Rapporteurs to Shell, and other oil companies, regarding divestment and remediating historic oil pollution in Nigeria. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Amnesty International's statement: International Court of Justice’s landmark opinion bolsters fight for climate justice and accountability

Today’s opinion is a landmark moment for climate justice and accountability. The ICJ made clear that the full enjoyment of human rights cannot be ensured without protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment. Read more 👇 amn.st/63322fJEyw

29 Human rights wins to be proud of. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/im...

Between January 2014 and June 2025, Saudi Arabia executed 1,816 people. Out of the 597 people executed for drug-related offences during the ten-year period, foreign nationals made up nearly three-quarters (75%) of such executions. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

A reminder.

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.

New @theguardian.com article on the EU's recent deregulation drive. "The European Union’s rollback of environment policy is gaining momentum, campaigners have warned, in a deregulation drive that has shocked observers with its scale and speed." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The ruling means that Shell’s attempts to restrict the scope of the upcoming full trial, to be held in 2027, have been unsuccessful, and it can be held responsible. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Amnesty International press statement following today's UK High Court ruling that oil company Shell can be held responsible for its oil spills in the Niger Delta, regardless of how long ago they happened. www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

Amnesty International's response to the announcement on Wednesday 12 June that the Nigerian government has pardoned the Ogoni Nine. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

New Op-Ed: "Fuego en el corazón de la Amazonía ecuatoriana: niñas y jóvenes en lucha por la justicia climática" by Alicia Moncado and Tamaryn Nelson has been published in El País. elpais.com/planeta-futu...

As the world accelerates toward renewable energy, we must not replicate old injustices At #RightHereRightNow #RHRNClimate, @amnesty.org joined a global UN–Oxford summit to call out the hidden human rights costs of the green transition & push for real accountability www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

@hrw.org 🤝🏼 @amnesty.org

ridiculously bad call www.politico.eu/article/macr...

Shell faces shareholder pushback over gas strategy. A special resolution at the Shell AGM today called for more information on the company's LNG business & asked how it was compatible with Shell’s climate goals. The resolution won 20.56% support from shareholders www.ft.com/content/1158...

@amnestyuk.bsky.social, @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social and Justice for Nigeria's protest makes the @theguardian.com photos of the day. www.theguardian.com/news/gallery...

They have been waiting YEARS for Shell to clean up their oil spills - and now Shell could walk away without properly doing so. We can’t allow this to happen: NO clean up means NO justice.

Dear supporters, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation today declared Amnesty International an "undesirable organization"

On the morning of oil company Shell's AGM 2025, activists joined together outside Shell's London HQ to call for a full clean up of the environmental damage caused in the Niger Delta. [1/5]

It might be paradise in the Shell AGM But, it’S HELL in the Niger Delta We gathered outside Shell HQ this morning to remind the company of their outstanding task in the Niger Delta.

Breaking News: The Hyundai Motor Company announces that it will increase its supply chain management of minerals to a new total of 20 minerals, including lithium, nickel, and graphite, which are key minerals for electric vehicle batteries. [1/3] www.mk.co.kr/news/busines...

Group of leading lawyers submits official complaint to Fifa, alleging the governing body has failed to follow its own human rights rules in relation to the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Kenyan women hired as domestic workers in Saudi Arabia endure gruelling, abusive and discriminatory working conditions, which often amount to forced labour and human trafficking. Our new report, out now 👇

New @amnesty.org report published today

Leigh Day's Daniel Leader addresses the solidarity action outside the High Court.

The Justice 4 Nigeria coalition, including MOSOP, Africa Seen and Heard, @fossilfreeldn.bsky.social and @amnesty.org gathered outside the courts this morning to show our solidarity with the Bodo community.

🚨 BREAKING: We’ve received reports that the planned protests in Bodo that were meant to happen in tandem with ours did not take place this morning due to threats to arrest protestors, putting anyone seen participating in a protest-like activity at risk.

Today, the Bodo community in Nigeria brought its case for justice to court in the UK. In 2008, there were two massive oil spills, caused by poorly maintained Shell pipelines, in a creek close to the Bodo community. Crude oil continuously leaked into the water for 5 weeks [1/5]

In 2008, two massive oil spills, caused by poorly maintained Shell pipelines, devastated the lands of the Bodo community in Nigeria. On Thurs 8 May, the Bodo community is taking its case to court in the UK in order to force a clean-up of the pollution. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

100 days into his second term, President Trump has led with cruelty and chaos, creating a human rights emergency that has affected millions of people by suppressing dissent, undermining the rule of law, and eroding norms and institutions essential to the protection of human rights. Read more 👇

Amnesty International warns of global human rights crisis as ‘Trump effect’ accelerates destructive trends. Read the State of the World’s Human Rights report 2025 here 👇

In 2024, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 91% of all recorded executions, and were among the five countries with the highest number of executions. Our latest death penalty report, out now: http://amn.st/63320FqDV8

While X cracks down on parody accounts, Big Tech platforms are failing to protect users from online violence and abuse. Social media algorithms actively amplify and escalate violent and hateful content to generate likes and shares, sometimes with dangerous consequences.

Breaking News: New @amnesty.org investigation highlights how HD Hyundai machinery has been widely used in demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in the OPT, according to new visual and testimonial evidence documented by Amnesty Korea & local human rights groups. [1/2]

Major new report published today.

Persecuted & banned by the Taliban, the Afghan women's football team is again set to be excluded from Asian Cup - ruling them out of the next World Cup too. Players in exile are demanding FIFA back them New @sportrightsall.bsky.social report out now 🧵 sportandrightsalliance.org/fifa-recogni...

The detention of +100 people, including Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, together with a four-day protest blanket ban represent a massive escalation in the Türkiye authorities’ crackdown on peaceful dissent and the targeting of the main political opposition party www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Chilling verdict in the #USA against our sister organization Greenpeace sets damaging precedent for protection of human rights & climate justice It has severe implications for Indigenous Peoples, and other environmental defenders and climate activists www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Breaking News: @AmnestyNigeria & @amnestybhr.bsky.social publish new blog on Shell's toxic legacy in Nigeria. The devastating impact of pollution caused by oil spills from decades ago continues. Niger Delta communities are still fighting for remedy decades later. www.amnesty.org.ng/2025/03/13/u...

🚨NEW: Over 360 activists & civil society orgs are standing united to tell the EU #NoToOmnibus. Omnibus proposal risks eroding EU’s corporate accountability commitments and human rights & environmental protections. #YesToCSDDD @amnestypress amn.st/omnibus-prop...

Tickets for tonight's screening at @amnestyuk.bsky.social are still available and it promises to be a wonderful evening. Book your tickets here 👇

Support justice for Niger Delta communities against Shell's exploitation. @amnesty.org, @amnestyuk.bsky.social & Justice 4 Nigeria presents: Film screening of "I Am More Dangerous Dead" followed by Q&A with film makers & Nigerian activists Fri, 7 Mar, 6pm-7:30pm www.eventbrite.com/e/justice-4-...

New @theguardian.com article references @amnestybhr.bsky.social 's 2019 report "Destination: Occupation: Digital Tourism and Israel's Illegal Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Thanks to @lselaw.bsky.social & the Grantham Institute for organising yesterday's panel discussion on the case brought by Nigerian communities affected by oil pollution against Shell here in London. @amnesty.org has stood with these communities for the past decade and we will continue to do so

“The sheer volume and scope of proposed changes to these vital laws are completely at odds with Europe’s green ambitions and its climate action commitments” warned @agnescallamard.bsky.social www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...