Margaret has played a key leadership role at AIUSA for the last several years, and she has worked in partnership with the Board, members, and staff to strengthen the organization in order to prot...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/amnesty/aiusa-appoints-new-executive-director-margaret-huang/
The world faces an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. On the 65th anniversary of the United Nations refugee convention being adopted, there are now 65 million displaced people globally, the highe...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/refugees/amnesty-time-for-change-on-refugees/
Amnesty International is calling for Saudi Arabia to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council – here’s why. 1. Crackdown on activists Saudi Arabia has continued a sweeping crackdown on h...
@Amnesty is now over 2 million followers strong. Together, we’ve changed lives and freed prisoners. As with the Amnesty movement of the past 55 years, we’ve gotten here by individual after in...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/justice/the-path-to-2-million-amnesty-followers/
Journalism is not a crime, yet the principles of free speech and a free press are threatened right across the world. To mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, we’re highlighting nine cases of j...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/freespeech/journalism-is-not-a-crime/
“If we fail our environment, we fail to protect our human rights.” -Ban Ki-moon Human rights, dignity, livelihood, health and wellbeing are directly correlated with the health of the environm...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/business/if-we-fail-our-environment-we-fail-to-protect-our-human-rights/
Among the olive groves on some of Greece’s beautiful islands there are barbed wire fences. At least 6,000 asylum-seekers have been locked up here since a new European Union (EU) plan kicked in ...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/trapped-in-europes-new-refugee-camp-greece/
Phyoe Phyoe Aung, who was detained in Myanmar after helping to organize largely peaceful student protests, has finally been released more than one year on.
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/asia/myanmar-student-activist-phyoe-phyoe-aung-finally-free/
One year ago today, an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched air strikes against the Huthi armed group in Yemen sparking a full-blown armed conflict. Over the following year, the c...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/middle-east/365-days-of-war-in-yemen/
St Patrick’s Day is when we celebrate all that is great about Ireland – we can now add the Irish public’s support for wider access to abortion.