Could 2012 be our most successful Write for Rights year yet?
By Joe Smith, a volunteer at Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London, UK. For months, Joe has invested his time and energy in organizing Write for Rights 2012 – the world’s largest letter-writing...
View ArticleWrite for Rights 2012/Iran: A husband’s message to activists
Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist and a mother of young twins, was sentenced earlier this year to six years in prison on charges related to her human rights work. Right now, thousands...
View ArticleWrite for Rights 2012/Dominican Republic: We don’t live; we simply survive
A message from Ana Montilla, whose husband Juan Almonte is still missing. A member of the Dominican Committee of Human Rights, he disappeared on his way to work on 28 September 2009 in Santo Domingo,...
View ArticleRead WIRE and take action against the death penalty
“I can’t believe he’s not here anymore,” Lubou Kavalyoua told WIRE about her son, Ulad, who was executed and buried in secret last year. She still doesn’t know where his grave is. Read their story on...
View ArticleJournalists remain defiant in Syria despite targeted attacks
On World Press Freedom Day, Noor Al-Bazzaz from Amnesty’s Syria research team describes how Syria’s defiant journalists are under attack from all sides. The Syrian authorities have for decades tried to...
View ArticleInside the development of Amnesty’s new Panic Button App
Tanya O’Carroll, Amnesty’s Technology and Human Rights Project Officer, on how emerging digital tools will help activists and human rights defenders. When Amnesty was founded 50 years ago, our tool of...
View ArticleRead WIRE November/December and join the world’s biggest human rights event!
Every year, around Human Rights Day in December, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide send a message to someone they’ve never met. It’s a classic Amnesty technique: 52 years of human rights work...
View ArticleWelcoming Yorm Bopha in the rain
Rupert Abbott, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Cambodia, describes prisoner of conscience Yorm Bopha’s recent release on bail, passes on her message of thanks to Amnesty’s members and says now is...
View ArticleWe’ll clench our teeth and go through it
I look at the mothers of the other men on trial and tell myself: “This is my brother and I worry so much. What must a mother feel when it is her son on trial?” An interview with Ksenia Kosenko, …...
View ArticleWrite for Rights – the true spirit of Amnesty
By Louisa Anderson, Global Campaigner at Amnesty’s International Secretariat. It’s been incredibly exciting, almost overwhelming, to see how much has happened over the last few days as Amnesty...
View ArticleRussian prisoner of conscience freed as Write for Rights 2013 reaches 1.4...
By Louisa Anderson, Global Campaigner at Amnesty’s International Secretariat. Fantastic news came today as our global letter-writing campaign, Write for Rights, drew to a close: Vladimir Akimenkov, one...
View ArticleArmed with pens, keyboards and a passion for human rights
A New Year’s message to activists from Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General. As a new year begins, I’d like to celebrate some of the things we achieved together in 2013. We are still...
View ArticleNew year, new conversations
Even the most intimate areas of our lives touch on our human rights. In WIRE, read the compelling stories of women, men and children who have experienced this personally. Discussing sexual and...
View ArticleHuman rights superheroes
With two prisoners already released and 2.3 million messages sent across 80 countries, Write for Rights 2013 was our most successful global letter-writing campaign ever. By Amnesty staff member Kristin...
View ArticleStanding up to the torturers, together
As Amnesty’s new Stop Torture campaign launches worldwide, our Secretary General, Salil Shetty, describes his inspirational meeting with torture survivor Claudia Medina. “I am here to ask for your...
View ArticleTaking torture personally
How do you support someone who has been tortured? That’s what this issue of WIRE explores, to mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June. We speak to Farida Aarrass about...
View ArticleWrite a letter, change a life
In this issue of WIRE you’ll meet 12 very different people and communities. What they all have in common is that there is a real opportunity, right now, to make a positive difference in their lives....
View ArticleJabeur Mejri, Tunisia: how your words change lives
As Amnesty supporters take part in this year’s Write for Rights, we talk to Jabeur Mejri in Tunisia, who was featured in last year’s campaign. By the Amnesty International Tunisia Team “I have two of...
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