By Kathy Price, Amnesty International Canada’s Latin America campaigner It is a story of immeasurable courage and the lengths to which shadowy and not-so-shadowy forces will go in brazen attempts to extinguish it. The place is Honduras, a country of staggering poverty and a tiny minority with...

At Amnesty International, #WeDefend the rights of human rights defenders. Join us. By Guadalupe Marengo, Head of Global Human Rights Defenders Programme, Amnesty International During the last few weeks, we have seen how attacks on human rights defenders continue to escalate all over the world as...

Take part in our solidarity action for water defenders under dangerous attack in Central America.  Indigenous leader Berta Caceres won the prestigious Goldman Envrionmental Prize for her efforts to protect the rights of Indigenous river communities in Honduras threatened by a dam project. Last...

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 rights commitments            Salil Shetty, head of the global movement,...

Everyday across the globe, men, women and youth speak out in defence of the land and environment. They defend our planet and thanks to their work, we have clean air to breathe and water to drink.But in countries such as Guatemala and Honduras, territory, land and environmental rights defenders...

International Women’s Day, March 8, is a rallying point for feminists worldwide. Established by the United Nations in 1975, it is a day to celebrate women’s achievements while highlighting remaining gender inequalities. But 41 years later, is it still necessary? , YES! Women and girls may have...