Just met one of the cast members from the most recent UK Traitors series on the train and started chatting. They've been a member of Amnesty since the age of 15 and said they would have donated their winnings to the organisation if they had won. 👍
The government sent a team to investigate in December but while they shared the results with the oil companies, it did not share them with the community.
No-one knows the source of the leak - it could be gas from old or operational industry infrastructure, like wells or pipelines that pass through Bille.
For months the people of the Bille community have had to live with this: gas bubbling up from the land and water, coming up through their drinking water wells. The health risks are obvious. But nothing has been done.
70 years after Shell first began pumping oil from the swamps of the Niger delta, the environment and people are still bearing the brunt.
With oil and gas prices shooting up due to Trump's illegal war in the Gulf, let's not forget the other victims of the fossil fuel industry. (thread)
HRW: An unlawful attack on a primary school in southern Iran on Feb. 28 that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including many children, should be investigated as a war crime. The US and Israel should immediately assess their responsibility www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...
Only yesterday, the Israeli military called for the evacuation of the entire area south of the Litani River, approximately 8% of Lebanon’s territory and home to hundreds of thousands of people.
Today, they issued displacement orders for all residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut.
1/ Trump’s illegal war with Iran has already taken a devastating human toll. It could also mean higher energy bills worldwide, while fossil fuel companies, traders and investors get rich.
Read our deep dive 🧵👇:
Amnesty International decries Mohammed's killing as 'calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders' in Iraq
Amnesty International decries Mohammed's killing as 'calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders' in Iraq https://aje.news/421jq6
The brutal killing of Yanar Mohammed, who dedicated her life to defending women’s rights, is a calculated assault to stifle human rights defenders, especially those defending women’s rights. https://bit.ly/47asW0A
Accusing activists of having links to terrorism has led to non-profit funds being frozen and local climate projects being delayed or scrapped.
congratulations Barnaby. Loot was such a great read. Looking forward to this.
"While the geopolitical focus remains on military targets, migrant workers – the backbone of the GCC, Jordanian, and Lebanese economies – are the invisible casualties. Trapped by the exploitative kafala (sponsorship) system, many lack passports and mobility".
womeninmigration.org/2026/03/urge...
This year’s Leaderboard will reveal which automakers are leading the charge by transforming their supply chains with targeted interventions and which are coasting, hiding behind generic commitments.
Don’t miss the release of the new Leaderboard, March 4th at 6 am EST!
leadthecharge.org
This is a great book about our times and about India's slide into authoritarian rule
www.alpashah.co.uk/incarcerations
Iranian authorities have denied Narges Mohammadi access to adequate and timely health care despite her poor health and torture related injuries.
The Iranian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Narges Mohammadi.
Since her arbitrary arrest on 12th December 2025, Iran's authorities have denied her access to family and lawyers, including in court, and have held her incommunicado in harsh conditions in a Mashhad detention facility.
Narges Mohammadi sentenced to 7.5 years in prison. Prominent Iranian women’s human rights activist sentenced as part of crackdown on dissent since the January protests.
Amidst an ongoing crackdown on dissent in the aftermath of the January protest massacres in Iran, a Court convicted human rights defender Narges Mohammadi for her human rights activism after a grossly unfair trial and sentenced her to 7.5 years in prison.
A glowing endorsement by a politician who is clearly adored by his people, just like Gianni is by the 211 Member Associations of Fifa. Kagame has been repeatedly re-elected president in Rwanda since 2000, with 99.18% of the vote in the last election.
Gianni did better in 2019 & 2023, though: 100%.
this is a such a well argued and evidenced piece - and its conclusions are frightening: "How tech turned against women"
www.ft.com/content/60e2...
The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Proud that @amnesty.org is supporting this
The scale and intensity of its attacks on vital energy infrastructure clearly indicate a strategy to spread despair among Ukraine’s civilian population and break its morale.
Take action now: bit.ly/3Zx7I95
Russia isn’t just waging a war of aggression against Ukraine, it is subjecting the entire civilian population to a campaign of extreme cruelty.
Amnesty International's staff members in Ukraine have spoken of stone-cold apartment blocks, frozen and burst pipework and disrupted phone networks.
Daniel Levine-Spound has published a legal analysis of Rwanda's war in DRC in Harvard's International Law Journal. However long these things take - and God knows the international climate is hardly propritious - there is eventually a legal reckoning. journals.law.harvard.edu/ilj/volume-6...
And that the answers to difficult problems are completely obvious.
