Two years ago, the UN Secretary-General recognized that the increasing demand for minerals risked perpetuating extractive patterns, environmental and human rights harms, and geopolitical tensions. The...

Such politics delay climate action by attacking the science, civic space and human rights that make climate action possible

Millions of football fans attending the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the USA risk coming face to face with troubling attacks on human rights, not least those stemming from abusive a...

President Trump must immediately retract these dangerous threats and commit the U.S. to upholding international humanitarian law.

Thousands of people living in Bille, a fishing community in Rivers State, in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta region, are facing a health emergency. Since October 2025, methane gas has been bubblin...

The Nigerian Government must immediately expedite their investigation into gas leaks across the Bille community in the oil-producing Niger Delta region, which are putting the lives of local residents ...

Trump’s energy chief had threatened to leave the International Energy Agency if it continued to focus on climate.

The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including repa...

Defamation lawsuit by Kolmar Group AG: Bernese Supreme Court sends strong signal in favour of freedom of information

Five Trump‑era policies adversely affecting global climate efforts

The US withdrawal from other major climate pacts aims to dismantle the global system of cooperation on climate action

This is a reckless, vindictive assault on the UN and the rules-based order

People power, including by Indigenous Peoples... was instrumental in achieving a commitment to develop a Just Transition mechanism at COP30

Türkiye will host next year’s COP31 summit as the location of the annual United Nations climate summit.

As the summit entered its second week, complex issues remain with anxiety growing over conference outcomes

The Kingdom of Cambodia joined the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. With this support, the country became the 18th nation-state and the first in Southeast Asia to participate in discussions towards a gl...

One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

One of the girls who sued the Ecuadorian government to eliminate fire starters in the Amazon will be at the environmental summit to demand that the court ruling be enforced.

Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, potentially threatening the health of more than 2 billion people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research. A damning new report by Amnesty International, shared exclusively with the Guardian, found that more than 18,300 oil, gas and coal sites are currently distributed across 170 countries worldwide, occupying a vast area of the Earth’s surface. Continue reading...

Amnesty International warns fossil fuel infrastructure is a 'major source of human rights violations' around the world.

520 million children live within 5km of fossil fuel infrastructure.

COP30 leaders must ensure human rights obligations guide all decisions at Belém and beyond to ramp up climate action.

A groundbreaking report published by ISHR today, reveals for the first time how a small group of States led by China and Russia are obstructing and hijacking budget negotiations at the United Nations…

As human-induced climate change threatens the human rights of people living in the Pacific, many seek opportunities to migrate to Aotearoa New Zealand. Sea level rise constitutes an existential threat...

Amnesty International and 34 other organizations released a joint letter welcoming the publication of the agreement between the Brazilian government and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (...

As sea levels rise and temperatures soar, people may leave their homes to seek a better future for themselves and their families.