Today is Amnesty International’s 65th anniversary. For 65 years, we’ve been documenting and exposing abuses, bringing violators to justice, freeing human rights defenders in prison, and building a world where everyone can enjoy their human rights.
We’re a megaphone for human rights—the largest grassroots human rights organization in the world.
Amnesty is expertly equipped and uniquely positioned to deploy all around the world and bring global attention to human rights crises. We’re holding governments, militaries, and institutions accountable. And right now, people around the world are counting on us.
Families caught in armed conflict, hoping and praying they survive the next missile attack. Refugees forced from their homes, tortured in prisons. Journalists jailed—or even killed—for doing their jobs.
And for them, we raise our collective voices to defend human rights and fight for justice. This year has already demanded so much, but we must keep at it.
As you read this, children and parents are wondering if they will survive another night. Human rights activists are wondering if they’ll ever step outside of their jail cell and feel the sun on their faces.
Their hope is for our movement to shine a light on the injustice they are experiencing and demand action:
- Over 30 million people in Sudan are in desperate need of aid—communities are under siege, and children are starving. Amnesty is deploying to neighboring Chad to interview survivors who have fled unimaginable violence.
- Two million women, men, and children in Gaza remain trapped under Israel’s ongoing genocide, struggling to survive relentless hunger and bombardment. Amnesty remains on the ground in Gaza, documenting the systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure and gathering evidence of war crimes.
- Immigrants and asylum-seekers in the U.S. are under constant attack as the Trump administration implements its cruel mass detention and deportation machine. Amnesty is exposing torture in U.S. detention facilities.
This is just a brief snapshot of the contexts Amnesty is working on. Our work is not just about exposing human rights abuses. It is about doing something about it, and giving people around the world something to do about it. Millions of people who recognize that no action is too small and who know that everyone can play a role in fighting for a future of dignity and justice.
And I’m proud to say that Amnesty’s work is (and always will be) powered by people. We don’t take a dime from governments or special interest groups for our research and advocacy. Our independence is what allows us to investigate abuses fearlessly and speak out without compromise.
But that independence depends on people who support the work
Every investigation, every urgent deployment, every piece of evidence we gather is only possible because of people who care and choose to chip in to fund our work.
We’re investing more in uncovering violations in places facing conflict and crisis: from Ukraine to Lebanon to Iran and beyond. We’re raising our voices even louder to free journalists and activists behind bars. We’re working to resist repression around the world and fight back against the Trump administration’s increasing authoritarian practices here in the U.S.
A lot has changed in our world over the last 65 years since Amnesty was first started, but the one constant has been our fierce independence and our people power. Caring, compassionate people like you have defined the 10 million stories that make Amnesty who we are: a movement for the people by the people.
We simply couldn’t be here without all those who choose to defend human rights when others look away.
On behalf of everyone here at Amnesty and everyone who is counting on us, thank you!
In honor of Amnesty’s 65th anniversary, please take a moment to donate to our annual Human Rights Giving Day campaign.