What is the Urgent Action Network?
The concept is simple: Take Action, Change a Life.
Urgent Actions ask our community of volunteers to flood the mailboxes, inboxes, phones and social media of authorities when someone is in imminent danger of human rights violations. Your letters, emails, phone calls, faxes and Tweets have helped to halt executions, support human rights defenders and free prisoners of conscience—people jailed solely for the peaceful expression of their beliefs and identity.
Please note that the US postal service has suspended service to some countries in light of COVID-19 – reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.
How Does It Work?
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STEP 1: Sign Up Today!
Sign up to receive Urgent Action emails. You can choose to receive all emails or a more limited number. You can also choose to receive emails on specific issues or regions.
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STEP 2: Take Action Now!
Urgent Action emails specify the case, local and international government officials to contact, their contact information and suggestions about what to write, say or Tweet.
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Our Educator’s Guide
Are you an educator looking for ways to engage your students in human rights? Find out how your students can show their power through letter writing!
In many cases, your action on these cases leads to better conditions for prisoners and their eventual release. Those individuals at the center of these Urgent Actions often send their thanks to Amnesty International, citing that these messages serve as a source of hope.
The reason we could resist the ban and move forward was the international support and solidarity by Amnesty International activists around the world. We could not have gone further without your support.
I am very grateful for all the support I received while I was in prison. Life in prison was very difficult and I was treated badly, but the support of those who believed in me made me strong.
My case once again showed how important solidarity and attention are in protecting the freedom of speech and human rights. I admire your noble work and boundless courage, dear activists.
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Urgent Action: RELEASE YORUBA PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE (Cuba: 61.23)
Hundreds of Cubans remain imprisoned for participating in island-wide protests on 11 July 2021. The Cuban judiciary, which is not independent of the government, routinely rubberstamps politically motivated accusations without…
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Urgent Action: BILL CONTINUES TO THREATEN INDIGENOUS RIGHTS (Brazil: UA 57.23 FU)
Bill 2903/2023 can be voted at any moment by Brazilian Senate. The bill – approved on May 30 by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies – seeks to make profound changes…
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Urgent Action: WATER DEFENDERS KILLED (Honduras: UA 003.23)
Oquelí Domínguez, brother of defenders Aly and Reynaldo Domínguez was killed in the community of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) on June 15, 2023. Five months earlier, defenders Aly…
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Urgent Action: TEACHERS UNION LEADER GET DEATH THREATS (Angola: UA 54.23)
On February 27th, the National Union of Higher Education Teachers (SINPES) in Angola started a strike demanding better working conditions and fulfillment of the promises made by the government. Since…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE THE KEMPIR-ABAD DEFENDANTS (Kyrgyzstan: UA 56.23)
RELEASE THE KEMPIR-ABAD DEFENDANTS A group of individuals have been arrested on charges related to their participation in peaceful protests in Kempir-Abad against a controversial new border agreement with Uzbekistan.…
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Urgent Action: 16 BAHA’IS FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED IN YEMEN (Yemen: UA 60.23)
On May 25th 2023, armed Huthi forces stormed a peaceful gathering of Baha’is in Sana’a, Yemen. They detained and forcibly disappeared 17 individuals, among them five women. One individual has…
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Urgent Action: POLITICAL ACTIVISTS UNJUSTLY DETAINED (Tunisia: UA 52.23)
POLITICAL ACTIVISTS UNJUSTLY DETAINED Since February 2023, Tunisian authorities have opened criminal investigations against at least 21 people including political opposition activists, lawyers, and businessmen on unfounded accusations of conspiracy.…
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Urgent Action: PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE DENIED HEALTH CARE (Yemen: UA 51.23)
Journalists Mohammed al-Salahi and Mohammed al-Junaid continue to be detained by the Huthi de facto authorities in Hodeidah, Yemen, despite the expiry of their sentences on 20 June 2022 and…
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Urgent Action: BILL THREATENS INDIGENOUS RIGHTS IN BRAZIL (Brazil: UA 57.23)
Bill 2903/2023 is set to be voted in coming days by the Senate. The bill – approved on May 30 by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies – seeks to make…
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Urgent Action: INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ACTIVISTS REPORTED MISSING (Philippines: UA 50.23)
Indigenous Peoples’ rights defenders Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, from the Cordillera region in northern Philippines, have been missing since 28 April 2023, in a suspected…
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Urgent Action: REFUGEES AND MIGRANTS FACE CRIMINALIZATION (Chile: UA 41.23)
On 10 April 2023, the Commission on Citizen Security of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies began its discussion of a bill that criminalizes refugees and migrants in Chile who lack…
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Urgent Action: CHILD PROTESTERS TARGETED IN THAILAND (Thailand: UA 14.23)
Thai authorities are prosecuting and harassing child human rights defenders for peacefully exercising their right to protest. LGBTI campaigner Thanakorn ‘Petch’ Phiraban has been sentenced; ‘Sand’ is on trial, Chan…