Celebrating the human rights wins of 2023

Although human rights are being gravely undermined in numerous countries across the world, Amnesty International’s supporters and activists have shown that change is always possible. Saving lives, changing laws and protecting human rights – Amnesty International has been busy racking up the wins this year.

© Biel Calderon
Students across the world call for governments to take climate change seriously.
LGBTI Rights Defender Zahra Sedighi Hamadani
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Venezuelan migrants crossing the international bridge “Simón Bolivar” in Cucuta, Colombia

Finding Freedom: activists acquitted and released

When you know that there is someone there for you, fighting for you, calling for your release, it helps you to feel like you are human. It gives you hope.

Mansoor Adayfi, former Guantanamo detainee