Our new report highlights how wrongful convictions are a common feature of the death penalty. Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and executed despite their innocence.

It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good. Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.

I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.

The deadliest wait: five women on death row www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @rdunhamdp.bsky.social

Burkina Faso: Plans to reinstate death penalty must be stopped

Benham Satah, friend of @amnesty.org & survivor of Australia's inhumane offshore detention system came to Brussels to speak to EU politicians and civil society about why the EU must not follow suit with similar cruel & unlawful offshoring plans.

Next Monday EU Foreign Ministers discuss DRC as violence escalates. This week Uvira, 2nd largest town in South Kivu, fell to M23. Civilians are being killed, injured, displaced. The EU & member states must act with an urgency to match the seriousness of this ongoing conflict.

Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government. Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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#Write4Rights✍️

Please join us!!

davisvanguard.org/2025/07/cali... #JusticeforChief #IndigenousRights #HumanRights @vanguardnewsgroup.bsky.social @eji.org @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @amnesty.org @nicke.bsky.social @ndncollective.bsky.social @nativenewsonline.bsky.social

davisvanguard.org/2025/07/kevi... Legal & forensic experts & civil rights advocates raise new alarms over DNA in #KevinCooper case! #FreeKevinCooper #RacialJustice #HumanRights @wtiusa.bsky.social @innocenceproject.bsky.social @amnesty.org @jews4abolition.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social

Wish we were in San Diego to join @haitianbridge.bsky.social @alotrolado-org.bsky.social @amnesty.org and community!

The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal areas are held accountable and take immediate steps to ensure that no person or group is targeted on the basis of their sect. Read more 👇

🚨 Kenya's high court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear and consider the merits of a case, in which Meta is accused of promoting content that led to ethnic violence and killings in Ethiopia.

The authorities in Iran must halt the gruesome plan to amputate the fingers of tortured prisoners. Amputation constitutes torture, which is a crime under international law and is a flagrant and abhorrent assault on human dignity. This spectacle of brutality must be ended. Read more 👇

We @amnesty.org recorded over 1500 executions across 15 countries in 2024, the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 2015. Yet our latest report finds that the use of the death penalty has been decreasing globally 👇

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.

What can the EU do? @amnesty.org and 12 others urge the EU to redouble action for human rights: 👉Condemn violations committed by all warring parties 👉Protect civilians 👉Champion justice and accountability 👉Support Sudanese civilians and rights defenders www.amnesty.eu/news/sudan-t...

The United States government’s abrupt and irresponsible termination of foreign assistance is putting the health and human rights of millions of people in Yemen who depend on humanitarian aid at risk. Read more 👇

Ahmad Manasra’s release today is a huge relief for him and for his family, but nothing can undo the years of injustice, abuse, trauma and ill-treatment he endured behind bars.

A reminder. Transgender people's rights are human rights.