68-year-old Mamana Bibi was picking vegetables in the family’s fields with her grandchildren in Pakistan. Then, out of nowhere, she was hit during a double drone strike led by the US.

The American Baptist Minister Dr Martin Luther King Jr led the struggle against racial discrimination in 1960s USA, inspiring supporters with the power of his rhetoric. He advocated the principle of non-violent protest, affirming that opposition should be tackled with compassion rather than aggression.

Here are some top tips and tools to protect your privacy and guard against identity theft, financial fraud and your personal pics and messages getting into the wrong hands.

Athlete and inspiring activist Colin Kaepernick has been honoured with Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2018, the human rights organization announced today. 

Four years since human rights defender Pholachi Rakchongcharoen, also known as Billy, was last seen in the custody of a Thai state official in Kaeng Krachan National Park in western Thailand, Amnesty International deplores authorities’ failure to provide his family with information about his fate and whereabouts and the ongoing official obstacles to his family’s quest for justice.

According to reports, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France have launched a strike against targets in Syria. Raed Jarrar, advocacy director for Middle East North Africa at Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement: 

Sub-Saharan Africa made great strides in the global fight to abolish the death penalty with a significant decrease in death sentences being imposed across the region, Amnesty International said in its 2017 global review of the death penalty published today.

Today Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the US Senate, after admitting that up to 87 million people may have had their data improperly shared with the company Cambridge Analytica.

There are at least 97 prisoners of conscience languishing in jails in Viet Nam, many of whom are kept incommunicado in squalid conditions and routinely subjected to torture or other ill-treatment, new research by Amnesty International reveals today. 

In the wake of the launch of ‘Amnesty International Report 2017/2018: The State of the World’s Human Rights’ which documents and analyzes the state of human rights in 159 countries around the world in the past 2017, it was found – countries including Thailand have imposed severe restrictions on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

Amnesty International Thailand is inviting our members, our media friends and everyone who is interested in human rights to attend the launch of Amnesty International Annual Report 2017/18. The launch will be held around the same time around the world on 22 February 2018.

Peaceful protesters in Thailand are at risk of arrest and up to eight years’ imprisonment as authorities seek to silence calls for authorities not to delay promised elections.