Senior Crisis Adviser Donatella Rovera blogs from Mosul, Iraq. Follow Donatella on Twitter @ DRovera. When they heard that there would be airstrikes on their neighborhood in eastern Mosul, Wa’ad […]

The killing of the third journalist in a month in Mexico raises new alarms about the state of free expression in the country, said Amnesty International.  Miroslava Breach, a reporter […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by Fannie Lafontaine, François Larocque, and David P. Taylor. WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who in 2002 was […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by Sacha R. Paul, Vanessa Gruben, and Michael Bossin.  WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who in 2002 […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by David Baker and Faisal Bhabha. WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Mr. Hinzman was an American soldier. He applied for conscientious objector status […]

SUMMARY OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S SUMISSIONS TO THE UN COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILD Canada underwent its third and fourth reviews of its compliance to the Convention on the […]

Amnesty International was represented in this case by Paul Champ. WHAT IS THIS CASE ABOUT? Until late 2005 Canada’s policy and practice was to transfer prisoners apprehended in Afghanistan into […]

RELEASED  WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2017 (00.01 GMT)          Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2016 to 2017            Risk of domino effect as powerful states backtrack on human […]

The UN Security Council has failed Syrians. In almost six years of conflict, close to half a million people have been killed and eleven million have been forced to leave […]

Write for someone’s life: SIGN UP TODAY FOR WRITE FOR RIGHTS Last year Amnesty supporters across the world wrote an astonishing 3.7 million letters, messages, emails, tweets and much more as […]

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International , “I have lumps in my breasts, in my throat, and in my uterus…” – Halimeh spoke softly, but as […]

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International “I have lumps in my breasts, in my throat, and in my uterus…” – Halimeh spoke softly, but as she […]