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Hudbay Minerals Loses Ruling Over Subsidiary’s Human Rights Violations
Angelica Choc during a press conference announcing a legal suit against Canadian mining company Hudbay Minerals for the murder of her husband Adolfo Ich (pictured) in Guatemala City (Photo Credit:...
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6 Questions Shell Oil Doesn’t Want You to Ask About Oil Pollution in the...
By Audrey Gaughran, Director of Global Thematic Issues at Amnesty International Full transparency is vital to establishing real solutions to oil spills and oil theft in the Niger Delta. But those that...
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It’s Official! United States Signs U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
Secretary of State John Kerry signing the Arms Trade Treaty (Photo Credit: Adotei Akwei). By Nate Smith, Amnesty International USA MSP Thematic Specialist In an important step forward for human rights...
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In Honduras, Posting a Blog Can Come with Jail Time
Members of the COPINH during a demonstration. Three members of the COPINH, Bertha Cáceres, Tomás Gómez and Aureliano Molina, are currently jailed or on probation for a series of blog posts and speeches...
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Ten Years After Khodorkovsky’s Arrest, Repression in Russia Continues
Since Putin was re-elected, Russians have witnessed a further erosion of their rights (Photo Credit: Vasily Maximov/AFP/Getty Images). When a government cracks down on human rights, the rule of law is...
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The Lies Shell is Telling About Oil Spills in the Niger Delta
In the powerful new report “Bad Information,” Amnesty International and the Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) reveal that Shell has manipulated investigations into its oil...
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The Dirty Secret Behind Cairo’s Development Dreams
12 million Egyptians live in informal settlements. Thousands inhabit the tombs of bygone nobels in Cairo’s City of the Dead pictured here (Photo Credit: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images). Egyptian lawyer...
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The Company That Forced Its Employees to Work For 9 Months Without Pay
Migrant construction workers in Doha © Amnesty International. By Conor Fortune, News Writer “Everything Was Hopeless.” This is how Rahul summed up his first stint as a migrant worker in Qatar when he...
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The Illegal Practice That Generates $44 Billion a Year For Perpetrators
There are more than 300,000 migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong, with about half from Indonesia (Photo Credit: Amnesty International). I had no time to myself – I worked long hours from 5 a.m. to 11...
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When A Fight For Environmental Reform Becomes A Fight For Human Rights
Children play in a polluted landscape containing years of toxic waste and various chemical byproducts from the Union Carbide leak on December 2, 1987. The site has never been properly cleaned up and it...
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Russia’s Most Prominent Political Prisoner Freed After Ten Years Behind Bars
Mikhail Khodorkovsky was charged with embezzlement and tax evasion. He spent 10 years in prison until his unexpected pardon by Russian President Vladimir Putin (Photo Credit by Sean Gallup/Getty...
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How Nigerians Are Fighting Back Against Oil Companies
By Joe Westby, Amnesty International Corporate Campaigner and Onyekachi Okoro, Media for Justice Program, Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) “People are dying silently. The...
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One Year After Factory Disaster, What Have We Learned?
The Rana Plaza catastrophe on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on April 24, 2013, that left 1,138 dead and more than 2,000 injured (Photo Credit: Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images). Today...
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Which Weapons Policy for Israel Are You Using Mr. President?
Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf forcefully countered questions about a recent Wall Street Journal article by saying ‘there has been no change in policy.’ But which policy did she mean? (Photo credit...
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Child Labor Behind Smartphones Exposed
Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child laborers has not been used in their products, said Amnesty...
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What do you know about your batteries?
By Dr. Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt, Director, Human Rights in Business Program, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law Lithium-ion rechargeable...
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U.S. Corporations in Myanmar Asked to Come Clean
Villagers shout slogans as they protest against a copper mine project, in Monywa northern Myanmar (Soe Than WIN/AFP/Getty Images) By Larry Dohrs and Simon Billenness, Business and Human Rights Group,...
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