Climate, Economic and Social Justice
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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.
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.
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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 🧵
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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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January 22, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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.
Some voices carry a lot more weight than others.
That is not an accident.
👉 www.oxfam.org/en/resisting...
#RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich #WEF26
That is not an accident.
👉 www.oxfam.org/en/resisting...
#RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich #WEF26
January 21, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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.
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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
January 19, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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
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 🧵
January 19, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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 🧵
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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.
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.
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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.
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...
US international withdrawals aim to tear apart global cooperation
This is a reckless, vindictive assault on the UN and the rules-based order
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January 9, 2026 at 1:25 AM
“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.
OECD countries, including EU countries & the UK, just forfeited to Trump their sovereign right to tax businesses operating within their own borders. This is an alarming subjugation of state sovereignty – and yet it is being spun as a landmark tax deal.
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OECD collapse will lock in countries’ tax losses to US firms - Tax Justice Network
The OECD announced today the “side-by-side system” negotiated by member countries exempting the US from OECD’s Pillar 2 tax reform.1 Alex Cobham, chief executive at the Tax Justice Network, said: “OEC...
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January 6, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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.
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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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December 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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.
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.
November 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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.
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/...
Cop30: UN accused of crackdown on Indigenous people – as it happened
As the summit entered its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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
Cambodia joins Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative as the 18th Nation-State at COP30 — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
The Kingdom of Cambodia joined the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. With this support, the country became the 18th nation-state and the first in Southeast Asia to participate in discussions towards a gl...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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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November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says
One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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...
OpEd: From an oil well to COP30
One of the girls who sued the Ecuadorian government to eliminate fire starters in the Amazon will be at the environmental summit to demand that the court ruling be enforced.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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...
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Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure
A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
A damning new report by Amnesty International, shared exclusively with the Guardian, found that more than 18,300 oil, gas and coal sites are currently distributed across 170 countries worldwide, occupying a vast area of the Earth’s surface. Continue reading...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people
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Amnesty International warns fossil fuel infrastructure is a 'major source of human rights violations' around the world.
World’s ‘fossil fuel obsession’ threatens billions of lives: Amnesty
Amnesty International warns fossil fuel infrastructure is a 'major source of human rights violations' around the world.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Amnesty International warns fossil fuel infrastructure is a 'major source of human rights violations' around the world.
The fossil fuel industry is thriving, despite the global commitments by world leaders to move away from coal, oil and gas.
In our latest report, #ExtractionExtinction, we @amnesty expose how fossil fuel infrastructure is expanding at the expense of human rights. amn.st/60197VvTh
In our latest report, #ExtractionExtinction, we @amnesty expose how fossil fuel infrastructure is expanding at the expense of human rights. amn.st/60197VvTh
Fossil fuel infrastructure puts rights of 2 billion people at risk
520 million children live within 5km of fossil fuel infrastructure.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The fossil fuel industry is thriving, despite the global commitments by world leaders to move away from coal, oil and gas.
In our latest report, #ExtractionExtinction, we @amnesty expose how fossil fuel infrastructure is expanding at the expense of human rights. amn.st/60197VvTh
In our latest report, #ExtractionExtinction, we @amnesty expose how fossil fuel infrastructure is expanding at the expense of human rights. amn.st/60197VvTh
As COP30 negotiations begin, we remember the Ogoni Nine, and demand that this COP result in commitments to protect human rights defenders and phase out fossil fuels.
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the Ogoni Nine who were executed by the Nigerian military government in November 1995 after campaigning against widespread oil pollution in the Niger Delta.
@amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
@amnesty.org calls for the Ogoni Nine to be fully exonerated.
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Nigeria: Government must clear names of executed activists Ogoni Nine
Marking 30 years since the Nigerian government’s brutal execution of nine leading environmental activists – the Ogoni Nine – for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, Amnesty Inter...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
As COP30 negotiations begin, we remember the Ogoni Nine, and demand that this COP result in commitments to protect human rights defenders and phase out fossil fuels.
Amnesty leadership, staff and environmental human rights defenders will be at COP fighting for fossil fuel phase out, protections for defenders, and climate finance. Stay tuned for updates. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
COP30: Keep people, not profits and power, at heart of negotiations
COP30 leaders must ensure human rights obligations guide all decisions at Belém and beyond to ramp up climate action.
www.amnesty.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Amnesty leadership, staff and environmental human rights defenders will be at COP fighting for fossil fuel phase out, protections for defenders, and climate finance. Stay tuned for updates. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
This report reveals how the structural racism and spatial inequality continuing from the apartheid era are exacerbated by climate-induced flooding, which poses right to health and housing risks in South Africa’s informal settlements.
📣 Breaking News: "South Africa: Flooded and Forgotten", the new @amnesty.org report highlights the impact of the climate crisis on millions of people living in informal settlements.
See the full report and press release here 👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
See the full report and press release here 👇
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
This report reveals how the structural racism and spatial inequality continuing from the apartheid era are exacerbated by climate-induced flooding, which poses right to health and housing risks in South Africa’s informal settlements.
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Amnesty International will launch the new Corporate Crimes Handbook at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights 2025.
Launch event is on Weds 26 Nov, 13:00-14:30 at the Palais de Nations (H Building), Geneva, Switzerland. and livestreamed here:
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Launch event is on Weds 26 Nov, 13:00-14:30 at the Palais de Nations (H Building), Geneva, Switzerland. and livestreamed here:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
November 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Amnesty International will launch the new Corporate Crimes Handbook at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights 2025.
Launch event is on Weds 26 Nov, 13:00-14:30 at the Palais de Nations (H Building), Geneva, Switzerland. and livestreamed here:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
Launch event is on Weds 26 Nov, 13:00-14:30 at the Palais de Nations (H Building), Geneva, Switzerland. and livestreamed here:
teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...
The world’s eyes are on Brazil as the host of upcoming #COP30. There is no justification for a state policy implemented through bloodshed.
Protests erupt in Brazil after the deadliest police raid in Rio de Janeiro history.
Death and bloodshed must not be treated as public policy. Public security should guarantee
rights, NOT violate them.
Death and bloodshed must not be treated as public policy. Public security should guarantee
rights, NOT violate them.
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The world’s eyes are on Brazil as the host of upcoming #COP30. There is no justification for a state policy implemented through bloodshed.