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Amnesty International is launching a powerful film showing the devastating impact less-lethal weapons are having on protesters globally, with many suffering life-long injuries and permanent disabilities. The new film, which features Leidy Cadena who was blinded by police in 2021 during a protest which was part of the National Strikes in Colombia, shows the devastating impact such weapons can have.

3rd April 2024
New short film highlights devastating impact less-lethal weapons are having on protesters globally.

The bodies of Palestinians in bags after an Israel attack

26th March 2024
UN Special Rapporteur report on Gaza provides crucial evidence that must spur international action to prevent genocide

26th March 2024
UK: High Court adjournment of appeal leaves Julian Assange and all media workers in limbo

Graphic calling for a ceasefire now in Gaza and Israel

25th March 2024
UN resolution must pave way for enduring ceasefire to alleviate mass suffering in Gaza

19th March 2024
Saudi Arabia: Repressive draft penal code shatters illusions of progress and reform

Amnesty activists call for a ceasefire now in Palestine in front of the US Embassy

15th March 2024
CAMPAIGNERS CALL ON BIDEN TO ‘LISTEN TO HIS IRISH ROOTS’ OVER GAZA CEASEFIRE

13th March 2024
Gaza: Airdrops and sea routes are no alternative to aid delivery by land

Iranian women remove headscarves. Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting women drivers.

7th March 2024
Iran: Draconian campaign to enforce compulsory veiling laws through surveillance and mass car confiscations

Justice for Majella projection on Westminster, to campaign against the Troubles Bill

28th February 2024
Northern Ireland: Troubles Act immunity strike-out proves premise ‘not only unjust but unlawful’

TOPSHOT - Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023. Israel continued to battle Hamas fighters on October 9 and massed tens of thousands of troops and heavy armour around the Gaza Strip after vowing a massive blow over the Palestinian militants' surprise attack. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

26th February 2024
Israel defying ICJ ruling to prevent genocide by failing to allow adequate humanitarian aid to reach Gaza

KYIV, UKRAINE - MARCH 02: A man holds a newborn child in the bomb shelter of a maternity hospital on March 02, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces continued their advance on the Ukrainian capital for the seventh day as the country's invasion of its western neighbour goes on. Intense battles are also being waged over Ukraine's other major cities.

22nd February 2024
Ukraine/Russia: Justice for Ukraine means accountability for all crimes committed by Russia since 2014

The Russian authorities have begun a widespread campaign of persecution against those paying respects to Aleksei Navalny.

21st February 2024
Russia: Authorities brutally suppress mourners of Aleksei Navalny

19th February 2024
Israel/OPT: Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations

16th February 2024
Russia: Prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny, Kremlin’s most vocal opponent, dies in custody

12th February 2024
Israel/OPT: New evidence of unlawful Israeli attacks in Gaza causing mass civilian casualties amid real risk of genocide

Victims following the bombing of a church in Myanmar

8th February 2024
Myanmar: Military air strikes that killed 17 civilians ‘must be investigated as war crimes’

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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