By Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International A generation from now, schoolchildren will be shown the image of a drowned three-year-old lying face down on a beach. They will […]

By Eliza Goroya in Kos, Greece and Khairunissa Dhala and Lorna Hayes in Berlin, Germany. From Greece to Germany, volunteers are joining forces to help newly-arrived refugees and migrants get […]

  Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified US government documents to the website WikiLeaks. Two years after she was first sentenced, Chelsea tells us why […]

UPDATE May 7, 2015: After a temporary stay while an Alberta court ruled on the government’s unsuccessful attempt to seek an injunction, Omar Khadr was released today on strict bail […]

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research, Amnesty International , The long-awaited fifth season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday, April 12. Broadcast in 170 countries, the show shocks […]

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research, Amnesty International The long-awaited fifth season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday, April 12. Broadcast in 170 countries, the show shocks viewers […]

By Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada. Follow Alex on Twitter: @AlexNeveAmnesty There is so much packed into the government’s current national security law reform, it is hard to […]

“No Burqas Behind Bars” –screening at AI Toronto Reel Awareness Human Rights Film Festival, Saturday Nov 22nd, 6pm @Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton Street, Toronto by Adriana Dragomir, Media Intern – […]

By Omar Khadr, former Guatanamo Bay detainee Ten years ago the Canadian government established a judicial inquiry into the case of Maher Arar. That inquiry, over the course of more […]

, by Elena Dumitru, Regional Activism Coordinator , On Saturday June 14th Amnesty International Toronto Organization (AITO) had its Regional Meeting and the day was a special one in very […]

GLOBAL FIGURES At least 778 people were executed in 22 countries in 2013. In 2012, Amnesty International reported at least 682 executions in 21 countries worldwide. Most executions took place […]

By Justin Mazzola, attorney and researcher with Amnesty International USA , Let’s all take a trip down memory lane to our Sesame Street days and engage in the following exercise […]