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Upcoming Events

UPCOMING EVENTS

  1. An image of a table covered with a white table cloth, with candles and a sign placed on top. The sign says "Human rights for Iran".

    Amnesty International Iran Action Circle’s 10th Annual Nowruz Celebration

    March 28 2019, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  2. Orientation Session for New Volunteers

    March 28 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  3. An image from the movie "The Silence of Others". It shows an older woman sitting against a roadside railing during sunset. On the railing is a pot with flowers.

    Amnesty International & the Human Rights Watch Film Festival Present The Silence of Others

    April 3 2019, 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

  4. Orientation Session for New Volunteers

    April 25 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  5. Orientation Session for New Volunteers

    May 23 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  6. Orientation Session for New Volunteers

    June 27 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  7. Orientation Session for New Volunteers

    July 25 2019, 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Seasonal Activism Guide (Homepage)

Seasonal Activism Guide

Keep up to date with the latest campaigning materials and resources.

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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”