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Human rights activists and Students in Bangkok strike and demonstrate to support the School strike for climate movement, also known as Fridays for Future, Youth for Climate and Youth Strike 4 Climate. Students demand politicians to act urgently in order to prevent further global warming and climate change.

12th July 2023
Six months of human rights successes

10th July 2023
Ukraine: US transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine undermines international efforts to safeguard civilians from indiscriminate weapons

6th July 2023
Sudan: Neighbouring countries must provide safe passage to those fleeing conflict

Amnesty activists march in Dublin Pride holding a banner that reads Pride is Protest

5th July 2023
Amnesty Ireland at Pride

The government’s attempt to allow the Irish Data Protection Commission to label all of their procedures as confidential is a blatant attempt not only to shield Big Tech from scrutiny but also to silence individuals and organizations that stand up for the right to privacy and data protection.

28th June 2023
Ireland: Draconian law to make data protection procedures confidential

26th June 2023
USA: UN Special Rapporteur’s findings reinforce urgent need to close Guantánamo and provide redress for past and present detainees

26th June 2023
NORTHERN IRELAND: Majority of the UK public are against the Troubles Bill – New Poll

Members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community take part in the 10th Izmir LGBTI+ Pride March in Izmir, Turkey, on Sunday, June 26, 2022. (Photo by: Berkcan Zengin/GocherImagery/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

23rd June 2023
Türkiye: Istanbul Pride showdown highlights threat to LGBTI rights

22nd June 2023
Global: Human rights should be essential to FIFA’s choice of World Cup 2030 host, poll shows

20th June 2023
NORTHERN IRELAND: PEERS URGED TO REJECT GOVERNMENT’S ‘DEEPLY DAMAGING’ TROUBLES BILL

People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, as fighting continues in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals, on April 29, 2023. - At least 96 people were reported to have been killed in El Geneina this week, the UN said, as fierce fighting between Sudan's army and paramilitaries entered a third week, violating a renewed truce.

19th June 2023
Sudan: Civilians at grave risk amid escalating violence in West Darfur

16th June 2023
Greece: Catastrophic Pylos shipwreck highlights desperate need for safe and legal routes to Europe

As the consequences of the Kakhovka dam destruction continue to unfold, the occupying Russian forces have been endangering lives in flood-afflicted areas following the destruction of the dam, while upstream water shortages and an upheaval of livelihoods point to an impending ecological and economic disaster

15th June 2023
UKRAINE: ‘Callous disregard for human life’ of Russian forces’ response to Kakhovkha dam destruction compounded by its disastrous effects upstream

15th June 2023
Qatar: Hundreds of migrant workers employed as security guards at FIFA World Cup denied justice for abuses

14th June 2023
EU: AI ACT: European Parliament adopts ban on facial recognition but leaves migrants, refugees and asylum seekers at risk

13th June 2023
EU: AI Act at risk as European Parliament may legitimize abusive technologies

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Amnesty International Ireland is an approved body under section 209 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Section 209 of the TCA 1997 applies to an organisation which is a body for the promotion of the observance of the universal declaration of the Human Rights or the implementation of the European convention for the protection of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms