These four Kurdish Syrian family members are traveling on foot. This group of brothers and a slightly older uncle left the town of Amuda located in the Kurdish region of Syria 10 […]

By Gloria Nafziger, Refugee Campaigner for Amnesty International Canada    Late Friday bombs exploded in Paris. People out for an evening of friendship and entertainment were gunned down without warning. Horror, […]

By Gloria Nafziger, Refugee Campaigner for Amnesty International Canada  ,   , Late Friday bombs exploded in Paris. People out for an evening of friendship and entertainment were gunned down without […]

By Ina Strøm from Amnesty Norway  Resettlement is a lifeline open to some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees. A young family from Syria tells us what a huge difference moving […]

, By Ina Strøm from Amnesty Norway ,   , , Resettlement is a lifeline open to some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees. A young family from Syria tells us […]

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 […]

Indigenous peoples and human rights groups say that a new United Nations report on Canada’s human rights record should be a wake-up call for all Canadians. The UN Human Rights Committee, which […]

A sobering look at Canada’s human rights record By Alex Neve, Secretary-General of Amnesty International Canada  “This is not the Canada I once knew.”  Those were the words of a […]

For a good part of the past year I received almost weekly phone calls from Abdi.   He told me he was stateless and had spent most of his childhood in […]

In a forgotten corner of South Sudan – a country itself mired in war, human rights violations and a staggering humanitarian catastrophe – refugees from a largely overlooked human rights […]

by Gloria Nafziger, Campaigner, Refugees & Migrants, Amnesty International Canada On June 14, under the banner of ‘My Door is Open for Refugees,’ Amnesty members and friends walked in support […]

By Gloria Nafziger, Refugee, Migrants and Country Campaigner There is nothing bogus about the real life events which Gary shared with me. As a gay man in a small Caribbean Island […]