Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team

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[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

For decades, communities in the Niger Delta have said their water, land and livelihoods were destroyed by oil pollution. Shell’s own internal documents now back up many of those claims.

See the new report "Nigeria: Lifting the lid" for the full story.

https://t.co/AT2nmzlhrp

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

A new joint statement from @CorpJusticeUK, of which @AmnestyUK is a member, welcoming the UK Government's announcement of a mandatory human rights due diligence law for the UK.

Read the full statement 👇

https://t.co/09BlMb0AAL

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

Please see the @Amnesty submission to the @WGBizHRs call for inputs for the new thematic report “Closing Remedy and Accountability Gaps in Business: Addressing Legacy Human Rights Harms” to be presented at the 65th session of the Human Rights Council.

https://t.co/SXEnvNIeVN

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

Detailed article featured in @THISDAYLIVE of @AmnestyNigeria's launch presentation for the joint report "Nigeria: Lifting the Lid" in Port Harcourt on 10 Nov. This event was attended by local media, NGOs and those affected by oil pollution in Nigeria.

https://t.co/hNjJPQTVNo

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

A candle lit vigil was held yesterday in Port Harcourt in remembrance of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni Nine. The attendance for this 31st anniversary event was incredible.

See the event photos from @AmnestyNigeria below.

[Amnesty International Nigeria @AmnestyNigeria]

Today marks 31 years since the brutal execution of Ogoni Nine for a crime they did not commit. Candle night in remembrance of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his fellow activists was held in Port Harcourt yesterday;

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

Today marks the 31st anniversary of the Nigerian government’s brutal execution of the Ogoni Nine in 1995 for a crime they did not commit.

@Amnesty reiterates our call for the Government of Nigeria to fully exonerate them all.

https://t.co/sl3JarJCTJ

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

Following yesterday's breaking news that the UK government plans to introduce new mandatory human rights due diligence legislation, please see the joint statement from @CorpJusticeUK in which Naomi McAuliffe of @amnestyUK is quoted.

https://t.co/5H7GmlWjFc

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

Ahead of #COP31 the Directors of Amnesty Australia, Brazil and Türkiye explain why the UN summit in Antalya can only deliver meaningful action if governments protect civic freedoms, curb fossil fuel influence and listen to communities on the climate frontline.

See here👇

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

COP31 must amplify people power, not oil lobby voices. ✊🌍
In a new @ClimateHome op-ed, @juremawerneck, @ruhat_sena_ and @Sam_Klintworth argue that climate talks must be driven by communities on the frontlines, not fossil fuel interests. Read it here:
https://t.co/eiKPBKLmUo

[Amnesty Tech @AmnestyTech]

A group of Civil society organizations, including @amnesty have raised concern over the growing number of harmful exports of surveillance technologies from EU countries to destinations where they may be used to violate rights.

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

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.

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

Please take action on behalf of the residents of Bille, Nigeria following unexplained methane leaks and a gas explosion in the town.

See Amnesty International's latest Urgent Action here👇
https://t.co/q682Dzu73E

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

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 https://t.co/SL7jtXPBN3

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

See the @Amnesty statement in response to President Trump's sanctions on the ICC following Navi Pillay's Nobel Peace Prize award.
https://t.co/MMWVT1as6l

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

Today, the Nobel Peace Prize honored Navi Pillay's extraordinary legacy: the belief that no one is above the law and that victims deserve truth, justice and reparations.

Just hours later, the @POTUS administration sanctioned the International Criminal Court itself in an attempt to undermine that very principle.

The answer must be resistance, solidarity and a determined defence of international justice. States cannot remain silent. They must act now to protect the @IntlCrimCourt, resist efforts to obstruct its work, and reaffirm that no one is above the law.

Read our @amnesty position: https://t.co/2WbpJte6kg

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

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. https://t.co/B2XY4F1To8

[Amnesty UK @AmnestyUK]

Today, when the organised far-right are once again on the rise throughout Europe and racial violence in the UK is escalating, we remember this: together, we can beat fascism.

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

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.

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

#PreCOP31 must turn years of rhetoric into concrete commitments and action that deliver the climate ambition the world needs at #COP31 in November.
Pacific communities cannot carry the burden of global climate leadership alone.
Read more: https://t.co/VDgBkvwn5R

#Fiji #Tuvalu

[amnestypress @amnestypress]

Australia cannot credibly claim climate leadership while continuing to support fossil fuel expansion that deepens the harms facing Pacific communities. Read more on @amnesty's asks at #PreCOP31 : https://t.co/VDgBkvwn5R

[Erika Guevara Rosas @ErikaGuevaraR]

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.
https://t.co/DmoPIkDyWU

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

A powerful statement from our colleagues at Amnesty Canada (@AmnestyNow & @AmnistieCa), describing the decision to proceed with the LNG Canada Phase II project as a major blow to the climate & Indigenous rights.

https://t.co/rNQ8KwVURC

[Amnesty Corporate Accountability Team @AmnestyCAT]

Amnesty International mourns the death of Joy Amos as she tragically passed away earlier this week following the injuries sustained in a gas explosion at her home in Bille, Nigeria, on 3 September.

@AmnestyNigeria's Public Statement is available here:

https://t.co/57OcW5q0ZZ