Activists, leaders and experts from across Canada will discuss human rights, diversity and reconciliation at a free, all-day event on Saturday, June 3rd, 2017. Tareq Hadad, Syrian refugee and founder […]

Ahead of a visit to Montreal, where the singer-song-writer will accept Amnesty International’s highest honour for activism, Keys talks politics and poutine with  By Amanda Ghazale Aziz for Chatelaine For Alicia Keys, […]

Junior Mandoko, far left, and Merryl David-Ismayil, front centre with some of their French students By Merryl David-Ismayil It all started with an experiment at Glendon College (York University), the […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada In early April, the courageous journalists at Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported that over a hundred men suspected […]

Today, World Press Freedom Day, Amnesty International called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in an open letter to make “a personal, public call” for Saudi authorities to immediately release Raif […]

By: Marium Yousuf On a beautiful, crisp sunny day last weekend, Amnesty International, Sojurn House, Culture Link and the Centre for Victims of Torture held an event in Toronto to […]

By Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada It is so important to understand the impact of President Trump’s travel ban. When the first Executive Order from the US President came […]

By Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada It is so important to understand the impact of President Trump’s travel ban. When the first Executive Order from the US President came […]

Any absence of human rights from the agenda of the first meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping, due to take place in Florida on Thursday and Friday, […]

By Gloria Nafziger: Refugee Coordinator Amnesty International “It was like Donald Trump had awakened a dormant volcano that was ready to erupt at any time; and I didn’t want to […]

By Gloria Nafziger: Refugee Coordinator Amnesty International “It was like Donald Trump had awakened a dormant volcano that was ready to erupt at any time; and I didn’t want to […]

“I was beaten with cables and told to kneel before a picture of Bashar Al-Assad.” Former detainee Abu al-Najem Six years of crisis in Syria, which began after anti-government protests […]