Some days it can be hard to find hope amidst all the challenges facing our communities, our country, and the world. It can feel like we’re not making progress – but we’re here to tell you our advocacy and pressure campaigns are working.
There’s so much to be proud of and inspired by when it comes to the impact of our work together.
Together, we’ve worked to free people unjustly detained, secure justice for children and families, and mobilize campaigns for human rights in so many places around the world.
We’re ramping up our efforts as human rights crises continue to build, and we’re fighting to protect everyone at risk. See how far we’ve already come in 2025.
Here’s some of what we’ve achieved this year and how you can continue to make an impact.
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP’S ANTI-IMMIGRANT AGENDA
Mahmoud Khalil
Our relentless advocacy led to the release of Mahmoud Khalil who was unlawfully arrested and detained for exercising his right to peacefully protest. Several other detained students have also been released, and we are fighting to protect rights on campuses!
Cesar and Norelia
Amnesty supporters overwhelmed ICE’s leadership with demands to free Cesar and Norelia, parents of three young children and asylum seekers from Venezuela who were unjustly detained multiple times. And we won – Cesar and Norelia are reunited with their kids! Through this win, we furthered our ongoing effort to protect people affected by the Alien Enemies Act.
U.S.-Mexico border and ICE facility research trips
Your support powered our on-the-ground research trips to the U.S.-Mexico border and ICE detention facilities in Texas to expose conditions, uncover human rights violations, and demand humane treatment.
FREEING INDIVIDUALS AT RISK AROUND THE WORLD
Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous elder and activist who was imprisoned for nearly 50 years despite concerns over the fairness of his trial over a crime he maintains he did not commit, had his sentence commuted by President Biden in his last hours in office and was freed after years of Amnesty’s persistent advocacy.
Neth Nahara
Neth Nahara, a 32-year-old singer and mother of two who was arrested for her viral TikTok videos criticizing Angola’s president, was freed after a year. Amnesty campaigned extensively for her release.
Mohammed al-Halabi
Mohammed al-Halabi, a Palestinian aid worker who was arrested and wrongfully convicted, was freed after years of Amnesty’s relentless campaigning.
“Even during my darkest hours, I knew that many people believed in my innocence, that supporters of justice were campaigning for my release. Their solidarity will always be engraved in my heart.”
Mohammed al-Halabi
Etienne Sissoko
Etienne Sissoko, a Malian author and activist who served one year of arbitrary detention for exercising his right to freedom of expression, was freed with the help of more than 8,000 Amnesty supporters calling for his release.
Your letters, calls, and petitions made it possible to remove people from death row
Rocky Myers
After serving 30 years on death row in Alabama — despite no evidence linking him to the crime for which he was convicted — Rocky Myers’ death sentence was commuted. Hundreds of thousands of Amnesty activists around the world sent letters and made calls for Rocky, making him the first Black person on death row to receive clemency in Alabama since 1976.
Billie Allen
Nearly 100,000 Amnesty supporters spoke out to save Billie Allen from the death penalty – and before leaving office, President Biden listened to our calls to commute his death sentence alongside the sentences of 36 others. Billie spent more than half of his life on federal death row for a case clouded by racial bias and a lack of evidence.
We got some results! But there’s more work to do.
Take action to free Andry José Hernández Romero and others who have been unlawfully expelled to El Salvador
Help us free Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was detained while caring for his patients in Gaza