Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team

The latest assessment from @UNEP is a stark reminder that the climate crisis is not a future threat. It is unfolding now, and the world is failing to respond at the scale and speed required. We are hurtling past the 1.5°C threshold while states, particularly those most responsible for driving the crisis, continue to fall dangerously short of the action needed to limit the overshoot, shorten its duration, and rapidly bring temperatures back down. Across the world, communities are already paying the price. Lives, homes and livelihoods are being torn apart by devastating floods, deadly heatwaves, prolonged droughts, rising seas and melting glaciers. Every fraction of a degree of additional warming means more lives at risk, more displacement, deeper inequality and greater harm to human rights. Delay is not neutral. Every year of inaction locks in more suffering for people and communities who have done the least to cause this crisis.

When people take to the streets to demand accountability, affordable living conditions and an end to corruption, the answer cannot be repression. @Amnesty’s new report on #Kenya documents how authorities used arrests, abductions, surveillance and restrictions on media freedoms to respond to protests between 2023 and 2025. These findings should serve as a warning far beyond Kenya: economic grievances must be addressed through rights-based solutions, not authoritarian practices amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

The serious injury of a 15yo student in Lens is a shocking reminder of what happens when weapons designed to shock, disorient and cause panic are deployed against people exercising their right to protest. Children and young people taking to the streets to demand their rights should never face stun grenades. Protests are not battlefields. These dangerous weapons can cause permanent hearing loss and life-changing injuries. They have no place in the policing of protests. France must permanently ban all stun grenades from protests and protect, not punish, the right to peaceful assembly. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…

What is happening to student protesters in #France should alarm us all. Children and young people are taking to the streets to demand something fundamental: their right to education. Yet protests have been met with unnecessary and disproportionate police force, including tear gas and rubber bullets. More than 5,000 people have been arrested and the Interior Ministry says 85% of them are children. Children exercising their rights must be protected, not criminalized. As demonstrations continue to take place across the country, French authorities have a clear responsibility: de-escalate, refrain from unlawful use of force, and protect peaceful protest.

Our new @Amnesty investigation exposes how Moroccan authorities built a vast surveillance machine to track, intimidate, blackmail and silence journalists, human rights defenders and other critical voices. From Pegasus spyware and intercepted communications to secret recordings inside homes, cars and detention facilities, surveillance has become part of a wider system of repression. And this machinery of repression does not exist in isolation. Companies based in Israel, the EU and the USA have supplied the technologies that make it possible, exposing a global economy of techno-oppression in which surveillance tools are sold to governments and turned against those who dare to speak out. This must end. Morocco must immediately stop the unlawful surveillance of journalists and human rights defenders and ensure independent investigations and accountability. States must stop exporting spyware and other invasive surveillance technologies to Morocco until effective human rights safeguards are in place. Read our new investigation. amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…