Give the gift of human rights

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Your commitment and support have helped Amnesty International achieve extraordinary human rights victories. Because of you, and over 3 million people like you around the world, we have a lot to celebrate.

We’d like to share some of our 2010 achievements with you, and also say thank you – because we couldn’t have done this without you….

• Significant efforts towards improving healthcare for pregnant women in Burkina Faso were made in February when President Blaise Compaoré expressed his commitment to lifting all financial barriers to emergency obstetric care and access to family planning, during a meeting with Amnesty International, and following our report on maternal mortality in Burkina Faso. Read more.

• The New Zealand Government demonstrated a meaningful commitment to protecting Indigenous rights when in April they announced their endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Read more

• With the help and generosity of Amnesty supporters, two extraordinary women’s rights activists from Papua New Guinea (PNG) were able to make history in July, when they travelled to the UN in New York to hold their Government to account for the staggering rates of violence against women in PNG. Read more

• The lives and livelihoods of remote and ancient Indigenous communities of Orissa’s Niyamgiri Hills, India, were saved in August when the Indian Government rejected plans to expand an alumina refinery which had already been causing air and water pollution, threatening the health of the local communities. Read more.

• In November, we saw Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walk free after spending 15 of the past 21 years in detention. Read more

• And in December, we heard that one of the cases featured in our global Write for Rights letter-writing marathon, Femi Peters, was freed four months before his expected release, possibly as a result of the pressure put on the Gambian authorities by Amnesty supporters. Read more.

Aung San Suu Kyi and Femi Peters are just two of many prisoners of conscience and others unjustly imprisoned, who have recently been reunited with loved ones. These prisoners met a massive, global force of passionate individuals who shone a light into the darkness and demanded justice.

Because of you, families have been made whole again.

With your continued support we can carry on making a difference in the lives of people we will probably never meet, in places we may never see, but who need our help.

Join us in bringing more families together - make a donation to give the gift of human rights.