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We campaign for human rights, climate, economic and social justice @Amnesty Join our fight for a fairer and more just world, where wealth is adequately taxed, those responsible pay their fair share for climate action and govts protect people and planet.
Alarming new video footage sourced from Bille, Nigeria, shows methane gas leaks bubbling to the surface in rivers & swamps, putting local residents lives in danger.
@amnesty.org calls for the Nigerian Government to rapidly expedite its investigation.
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When ideas are hidden or censored, we go looking for them - because the freedom to read, learn, and think for yourself is a human right.
Books can change lives - and so can we.
#BooksforAll #RighttoEducation #WBD2026
When those in power try to silence us or cut us off from each other - by limiting education, censoring ideas, blocking news, or keeping the rest of the world in the dark - we don’t just sit back. We stand together. #WorldBookDay2026
US President Donald Trump’s fossil fueled bullying continues. A few profit from climate denialism; many will pay. Other countries must stand up & stop Trump’s destruction of the mechanisms we need to protect human rights in the face of the accelerating climate crisis. www.politico.eu/article/us-s...
“The resolution attempts to turn the ICJ’s interpretation of key legal standards into a practical roadmap for state accountability, which is likely to trigger pushback from…countries wary of their historical responsibility” says @candyofime.bsky.social apnews.com/article/un-r...
Breaking News: Journalists & NGO workers are acquitted for a 2nd time in a defamation lawsuit brought by Kolmar Group AG against Public Eye & TRIAL International
The was seen as being a classic SLAPP, and the acquittal is a win for corporate accountability
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The current U.S. administration seeks to damage climate action in the U.S. and globally; strong resistance from governments and people is key to safeguarding our collective future. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca...
The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement threatens a “race to the bottom” in global climate action. Other historic emitters must also continue to phase out fossil fuels irgently, despite coercion and bullying from the US. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Promotional poster for 'Extraction Zoom Info Session' featuring colorful portraits of Tara Scurr, Candy Ofime, Molly Wickham (Sleydo'), and Kate Turner, scheduled for February 4, 2026.
Join Amnesty International on February 4 at 7pm EST for an exciting webinar about how people around the world are fighting to protect the environment and our collective futures by ending public financing for fossil fuel expansion.
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This report exposes the growing power of the super rich, including their role in dismantling the infrastructure for ESC rights realization. Amnesty SG Agnes Callamard wrote a forward describing the links among turbocharged inequality, authoritarian practices, and human rights.
Our new report finds that billionaire fortunes grew 3 times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever. This concentration of wealth is reshaping democracy. Billionaire money changes who gets heard, who decides & who gets left behind ➡ africa.oxfam.org/latest/publi... #TaxTheSuperRich #WEF26
To get the SDGs back on track, govts must:
- Phase out fossil fuel investments + end subsidies
- Address the debt crisis
- Stop tax abuse via #UNtaxconvention
- #TaxtheSuperRich & those most responsible for the climate crisis: fossil fuel giants
Adequate finance for mitigation, adaptation, loss & damage and just transition is vital to protect millions especially historically marginalized communities. Yet the huge gap between what is needed, pledged & delivered leaves govts unable to fight #climatechange and achieve #SDGs
#COP30 failed to put people and planet over profits: no concrete commitments to phase out fossil fuels, stop deforestation or scale up grants-based finance for lower-income countries' climate action. Those least responsible continue to pay the highest price. bit.ly/49H4wMQ
Pie chart describing overall progress across SDGs target based on 2015-2025 aggregate data: 18% on track or met 17% moderate progress 31% marginal progress 17% stagnation and 18% regression
Lack of money for the #SDGs means not enough funding for health, education, housing & social protection in low-income countries that desperately need it to guarantee economic and social rights for their people. We’re now 4 years away from the 2030 target with 82% off track.
There is a lot of funding available to finance the #SDGs incl climate action, but not enough political will, particularly from high-income countries. We urgently need action rooted in #humanrights for global changes from taxation on wealth to ending fossil fuel subsidies. bit.ly/4aZIneY
At #WEF #Davos, the world’s richest will meet under “A Spirit of Dialogue”. But dialogue w/out multilateral cooperation & int’l law means nothing. While most of the #SDGs are off-track, authoritarian practices threaten peace, worsen the climate crisis & erode #humanrights. A 🧵
Spoke to the Guardian on amnesty’s 1978 World Cup campaign and how our expectations of bodies like FIFA have since changed.
It feels like change will come when either customers or sponsors revolt, monopolies are challenged or sport’s autonomy is regulated. And it may need a crisis to kick it off.
“Withdrawing from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in particular is unprecedented and the United States will be the only country to have done so.” www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Tax can be a powerful tool for realizing rights, but the U.S. govt has opted to instead protect the interests of large corporations. All eyes are on the still being negotiated UN tax convention, where states have the opportunity to enshrine a human rights promoting global tax agreement.
2025 has been an incredibly busy year for the @amnestybhr.bsky.social Team. Please take a look at some of our highlights from the past year.
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Eyes on #COP30 crunch day:
Urgently tackling the drivers of climate change, including fossil fuels and deforestation, and providing money for countries to adapt and to rebuild without debt - MUST go hand in hand.
Humanity demands big steps and bold action.
Amnesty and many others insist that the right to protest be protected - not undermined - by the UNFCCC at COP. There is no climate justice without human rights. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Fantastic news from COP30! As Amnesty’s - & many others’ - research has exposed, fossil fuels harm the rights of hundreds of millions living near infrastructure, & the rights of billions affected by cimate change. The FF treaty is an impt & hopeful route to phase out. fossilfueltreaty.org/cambodialo
We joined 170+ organizations to demand the @UNFCCC reverse the impacts of their request to increase security forces at #COP30. #IndigenousPeoples & civil society are not a threat. The right to peaceful protest is essential to climate action at COP30 & everywhere
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The juxtaposition of these figures on the high # of fossil fuel lobbyists at COP and the images of Indigenous protestors literally breaking the doors to get in exemplifies the injustice of climate governance. hhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/14/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-cop30
This personal and wrenching op-Ed about the cost of fossil fuels was written by a child environmental human rights defender from Ecuador www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
