More than 323,000 people worldwide sign Amnesty International’s ‘Free Xinjiang Detainees’ petition Open letter urges UN to investigate human rights violations against Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities New testimonies reveal impact on detainees’ family members The international...

In the winter of grade eleven, I took the course that inspired me to write my article: The Crossroad of Sports and Politics: Boycotting the 2022 Beijing Olympics. This course, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, forced me to critically examine world history while providing me a...

Huseyin Celil is a Canadian citizen and a Uyghur human rights activist originally from China who promoted the rights of China’s Uyghur minority.  In 2001, he fled China after being in jail for supporting the religious and political rights of the Uyghur people. The United Nations recognized him...

Imagine if you were detained in an internment camp or sentenced to prison for years because of your ethnicity or religion, your life or travels abroad, the number of children you have, having WhatsApp on your phone, or your calls to friends and relatives abroad.   This is the reality for...

A statement delivered at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva by a cross-regional group of 43 states who are “gravely concerned” about China’s serious human rights violations in Xinjiang must pave the way for concrete action, Amnesty International said today, repeating its call for an...

Hundreds of thousands of Muslim minority men and women subjected to mass internment and torture Millions of Muslims subjected to systematized mass surveillance Muslim ethnic groups forced to abandon their religious traditions, cultural practices and local languages More than 50 former camp...

Pandemic lays bare massive systemic inequality worldwide with ethnic minorities, health workers, and women among the most severely impacted Report finds COVID-19 weaponized by leaders to ramp up their assault on human rights New Secretary General Agnès Callamard calls for a re-think and reset of...

The exiled families of Uyghur children held in state “orphanages” in the Chinese region of Xinjiang described the torment of being separated in a new piece of Amnesty International research released today. The organization spoke to parents who have been completely cut off from their children...

New: Close Guantanamo! The incoming administration in the US represents a fresh opportunity to press for closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Forty men continue to be held there, with their lives in limbo despite court orders for many of them to be released. Some have been held for...

Leaders ignore their responsibilities at their peril. Across the globe, people are organizing in extraordinary numbers, with a sense of common purpose that unites them across race, gender, age and social condition.  By Ketty Nivyabandi & Alex Neve* 2020 has been a tumultuous year for human...

35 years ago, on a wintry evening in early 1985, I attended my first Amnesty International meeting.    I had just begun studying law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, with an entirely unformed notion of becoming a lawyer pursuing social change. I had seen an intriguing notice on a...

New Amnesty investigation highlights why EU export rules for surveillance technology fail. European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. The...