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HAMBURG, GERMANY - MARCH 01: Teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg demonstrates with high school students against global warming at a Fridays for Future demonstration on March 01, 2019 in Hamburg, Germany. Fridays for Future is an international movement of students who, instead of attending their classes, take part in demonstrations demanding for action against climate change. The series of demonstrations began when Thunberg staged such a protest outside the Swedish parliament building. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)

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Climate activists Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement honored with top Amnesty International award

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement of school-children have been honored with Amnesty International’s Ambassador…

June 7, 2019

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Israel: Amnesty International engages in legal action to stop NSO Group’s web of surveillance

Amnesty International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court, to demand that…

May 12, 2019

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Global: Facebook must help ‘lead fight against hate speech online’

Responding to the news that Facebook will no longer allow content supporting white nationalism and white separatism to be published, Tanya O’Carroll,…

March 28, 2019

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FIFA must put human rights at heart of World Cup expansion talks

Ahead of this week’s FIFA Council Meeting in Miami, Amnesty International and a coalition of NGOs, trade unions, fans and…

March 11, 2019

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Iran: Release eight wildlife conservationists following unfair trial on trumped-up spying charges

Wildlife conservationists in Iran who have been accused of espionage after using cameras to track endangered species could face the…

March 5, 2019

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Google Dragonfly plans further eroding users’ trust

Responding to reports by The Intercept that Google is still working on Project Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China

March 5, 2019

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Israel/OPT: Tourism companies driving settlement expansion, profiting from war crimes

Online booking giants Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are fueling human rights violations against Palestinians by listing hundreds of rooms…

January 30, 2019

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Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women

Amnesty International released a ground-breaking study into abuse against women on Twitter today, conducted with Element AI, a global artificial…

December 18, 2018

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UN: Decisive action needed to ban killer robots - before it’s too late

As rapid technological advances bring “killer robots” ever closer to reality, Amnesty International is calling on states to support the…

August 26, 2018

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BRICS: Nations Must Put Human Rights First

BRICS nations must put human rights at the forefront of their discussions, said Amnesty International India and South Africa in…

July 25, 2018

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Global Wikipedia edit-a-thon shines spotlight on the unsung women defending human rights around the world

Wikipedia enthusiasts from around the world are joining forces on 19 and 20 May 2018 to take part in a…

May 18, 2018

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Google’s new Chat service shows total contempt for Android users’ privacy

Responding to Google’s launch of a new messaging service for Android phones, Amnesty International’s Technology and Human Rights researcher Joe…

April 20, 2018