• Mar 19 2013
  • 4:13pm
Save lives and protect human rights - sign up for the Urgent Action Network today
Video In 1973 Tracy Ulltveit-Moe launched the first ever Urgent Action, on behalf of Professor Luis Rossi.
  • Mar 19 2013
  • 11:11am
The story of Amnesty’s first ever Urgent Action: launched forty years ago!
It’s hard to believe that it’s forty years since I issued Amnesty’s first ‘Urgent Action’.
  • Mar 19 2013
  • 10:37am
Still urgent after 40 years
Video It’s 40 years today since we issued the first ever Urgent Action, on behalf of Brazilian Labour Rights activist Professor Luiz Basilio Rossi, detained and tortured by the mil...
  • Dec 21 2012
  • 7:42pm
Happy Birthday Pocket Protest
It’s hard to believe, but our SMS action network is one year old! In that time it’s been given a name – Pocket Protest; grown from nothing to almost 20,000 member...
  • Oct 29 2012
  • 4:51pm
25th October urgent action request - ACTIVIST LEADER AND WIFE KILLED IN MEXICO
UA 320/12        25 October 2012        URGENT ACTION
  • Aug 28 2012
  • 8:42pm
Urgent Actions for August
Urgent Actions support individuals in immediate danger around the world by flooding the relevant authorities with faxes, emails, telegrams and letters. Please help us if you can.
  • Jul 17 2012
  • 11:00pm
Latest Urgent Action: Nigeria
THOUSANDS FORCIBLY EVICTED IN PORT HARCOURT For full details and to take part in this urgent action, please download the attachment below. Thank you!
  • Jul 5 2012
  • 10:06pm
Urgent Actions for July
Urgent Actions support individuals in immediate danger around the world by flooding the relevant authorities with faxes, emails, telegrams and letters. Please help us if you can.
  • Jun 7 2012
  • 10:49am
Children jailed in Syria for their father's alleged crimes
This action is now closed. Thank you to the thousands of you who responded.
  • May 21 2012
  • 10:23am
Azerbaijan: the Eurovision host-nation where free expression costs dearly
Not long to go now until the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest! It will take place this Saturday, 26 May, in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.