Each year on International Women’s Day, the world celebrates the acts of courage and determination of women worldwide. It’s a global celebration of the accomplishments, legacy, and rights o...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/women/for-womens-rights-defenders-every-day-is-international-womens-day/
While I welcome the Iranian authorities' decision to release Sotoudeh and others unjustly imprisoned, I can't help but be skeptical of the timing.
Iran’s challenges are not few, from job creation and stopping inflation to improving foreign relations. Most presidential candidates in 2013 ran on such platforms. However, there was a key issu...
The imprisonment of Iranian filmmaker Behrouz Ghobadi appears to be the latest attempt by Iran’s regime to silence the country’s artists. Hollywood has united with Amnesty International to ca...
Iran Mission to UN accepts 21,000 petition signatures from Amnesty International delegation including Oscar winning filmmaker Paul Haggis, actresses Nazanin Boniadi and Trudie Styler.
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/hollywood-unites-for-iranian-filmmakers/
In June 2009, hundreds of thousands of courageous men and women took to the streets in Iran, demanding their inalienable rights amid the turmoil of the country’s disputed president election. Sa...
By Mikel Jollett and Nazanin Boniadi for The Neda Project The tragic death of Neda Agha-Soltan on June 20th, 2009, sent a shiver down the cumulative spine of all freedom-loving people across the ...
The first charter on human rights was authored by Cyrus the Great over 2500 years ago. As Iranians we are heirs to a proud tradition of human rights and tolerance. Sadly, the Iranian authorities ...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/in-solidarity-with-the-people-of-iran/
The United Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), proposed by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted by the United Nations in 1948 established 30 articles of universal Human Rights. This document ...