Upcoming Events
UPCOMING EVENTS
World Water Day: Celebrate! Take Action!
March 22 2019, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lessons from Snowden: His Lawyer on Whistleblowing & Surveillance
March 22 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Amnesty International Iran Action Circle’s 10th Annual Nowruz Celebration
March 28 2019, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Amnesty International & the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Present The Silence of Others
April 3 2019, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Release women human rights defenders.
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End gender-based violence.
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Webwatch (Homepage)
WEB WATCH
Human rights abuses in the Indonesian palm oil plantations.
For the past year, Amnesty International has been investigating one of the largest producers of palm oil in the world – Wilmar, based in Singapore – and the working practices on some of its Indonesian plantations and those of its suppliers which are amongst the biggest on earth. “We knew there were concerns but the fact that these abuses are so prevalent in a sector that has come in such much scrutiny and there were so much fan fair with some of the largest companies promising consumers delivering sustainable palm oil that ensuring that no exploitations end up in the products that you and I use on an everyday basis I was actually shocked at that”