Responding to news that the UN have granted refugee status to Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year old Saudi woman, and put her forward for resettlement to Australia, Amnesty International’s Middle East Director of Campaigns Samah Hadid said:
Responding to reports that Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year-old Saudi woman, faces deportation from the transit zone of Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok (Thailand), Samah Hadid, Amnesty’s Middle East Director of Campaigns said:
Over the last year, almost seven million Amnesty International supporters have taken action – protesting, writing, petitioning and much more – to defend and advance human rights everywhere.
Today, the world honours the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This extraordinary document, adopted on 10 December 1948, brought the international community together in an unprecedented show of unity, setting out for the first time a bill of rights that would apply to all people, and in doing so struck at the heart of injustice across the globe.
Amnesty International Thailand reveals a shortlist of news report and news documentary of “Media Awards 2018”, altogether 14 entries in four categories. The finalists will be announced, and the Awards will be given on Thursday 24January 2019 at AVANI Riverside Bangkok Hotel.
Amnesty International calls on Thai authorities to promptly release Rath Rott Mony, president of the Cambodian Construction Workers Trade Union Federation (CCTUF) from Suan Phlu Immigration Detention Centre in Bangkok and to not deport him to Cambodia.
Thai authorities must immediately drop all arbitrary restrictions on human rights and peaceful political activities as well as charges against peaceful critics before elections expected next February, Amnesty International said today ahead of a critical meeting between the ruling military government and political parties.
Amnesty International Australia has today called on the Thai authorities to end the detention of Bahraini national and Australian resident Hakeem al-Araibi, which is ongoing despite the reported lifting of the INTERPOL Red Notice that led to him being detained.
It started in Poland with a young man trying to impress a young woman. He met her at a festival and she told him about 24-hour events she’d been to in Africa, where people wrote letters of protest to governments. Inspired by her story – and wanting to see her again – he invited her to his local Amnesty group where they decided to do the same thing.
Amnesty supporters around the world took an unprecedented 5.5 million actions for human rights activists in 2017 as part of Write for Rights, our global letter-writing marathon.
Women human rights defenders around the world are facing unprecedented levels of abuse, intimidation and violence, said Amnesty International as it launched its global Write for Rights campaign, in a bid to shine a spotlight on brave women who have been harassed, jailed, tortured or even killed for their human rights work.
29 November marks the United Nations’ International Women Human Rights Defenders Day. It means to raise the awareness of the importance of WHRDs who put their lives and dignities at risk, more than their male counterparts, or more than those campaigning on issues not related to gender or reproductive rights. Such WHRDs have been targeted for rights violation by both state and private agencies. They have to endure physical harassment and dehumanization.