Amnesty International

Around the world, children's human rights are being violated every day. As conflicts, inequality and climate challenges persist, children are often disproportionately impacted by human rights crises. This #WorldChildrensDay, we’re reminding you that children must be protected from harm, provided for to support growth and development, and empowered to participate in society. Ignorance of children’s rights puts children at greater risk of abuse, discrimination and exploitation. Children must be protected.

A reminder.

Amnesty International’s latest research exposes how Denmark’s welfare authority, Udbetaling Danmark, is using insidious surveillance practices and AI-powered fraud control algorithms in its quest to detect social benefits fraud. This risks discriminating against people with disabilities, migrants, refugees, & racialized people. The Danish welfare authority's expansive surveillance machine is used to document and build a panoramic view of a person’s life that is often disconnected from reality. It tracks and monitors where a social benefit claimant lives, works, their travel history, health records, and even their ties to foreign countries. The system risks discriminating based on race, migration status, and socio-economic status. Amnesty International research argues that the evaluation and classification of people based on behavior and characteristics, points to the welfare system in Denmark being a social scoring system. Under the EU’s AI Act, social scoring systems must be banned. Amnesty International is calling on the Danish Government to end this pernicious surveillance and ban the use of data which evaluates behaviour and characteristics and serves as a proxy for race or ethnicity in its welfare system.

A reminder. We are all protected against discrimination based on our sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression and sex characteristics under international human rights law. Transgender people's rights are human rights 💙💗🤍💗💙

#COP29 has begun. World leaders must build on last year’s decision to commit to a full, fast, fair and funded fossil fuel phaseout and tackle the climate crisis by: ▶️ Providing resources for a global phase out. ▶️ Richer countries committing to paying their climate debt - #PayUp! ▶️ Compensating the most impacted by climate change to help rebuild.

‘Is it a boy or a girl?’ It is often the first question people ask parents about their baby. It’s a question based on the assumption that the world is divided into two groups of people, male and female, and that everyone’s biological and genetic characteristics fit neatly into one of two categories. But that is not always the case; in fact, more often than you might think. An estimated 1.7% of children in the world are born every year with variations of sex characteristics. This #IntersexAwarenessDay, learn more 👇 http://amn.st/6049SvNB9

Your voice matters. You have the right to say what you think, share information and demand a better world. You have the right to agree or disagree with those in power, and to express these opinions in peaceful protests. Peaceful protest is not a crime.

Civilians must be protected. Our shared humanity must prevail 🕯️

Amnesty International has documented extensively the damage to human rights caused by President-elect Trump’s first administration, including its efforts to redefine human rights, and stands ready to defend human rights in his second Presidential term. Amnesty International is no stranger to adversity. For more than six decades, we’ve never backed down, and we are not backing down now ✊

A reminder.