Open letter: Canadian government must cancel plans to use federal prisons for immigration detention
More than 80 groups have signed a statement urging the government to abandon its plan to expand immigration detention into federal prisons.
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The State of the World’s Human Rights
THE STATE OF THE WORLD’S HUMAN RIGHTS Amnesty International’s Global Annual Human Rights Report READ THE REPORT Amnesty International sounds alarm on a watershed moment for international law amid flagrant rule-breaking by governments and corporate actors Powerful governments cast...
More than 250 humanitarian and human rights organisations call to stop arms transfers to Israel and Palestinian armed groups
An open call to all UN Member States to stop fueling the crisis in Gaza and avert further humanitarian catastrophe and loss of civilian life. We, the undersigned organisations, call on all States to immediately halt the transfer of weapons, parts, and ammunition to Israel and Palestinian...
2023 Human Rights Agenda
THE GLOBAL RECESSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS Our 2023 Human Rights Agenda looks back at Canada’s human rights record over the past year against the backdrop of a global recession on human rights. Last year, civilians paid the brunt of heightened armed conflicts and the erosion of human rights protection...
Israel/OPT: States must reverse cruel decision to withdraw UNRWA funding
The decisions by at least 9 donor countries to suspend funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), following allegations that individual staff members were involved in the 7 October attacks in southern Israel, will deal a devastating blow to more than two million refugees in the occupied...
Civilians in Gaza at unprecedented risk as Israel imposes communication black-out during bombardment and expanding ground attacks
Responding to reports of a total communications blackout in the occupied Gaza Strip, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director of Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International, said: “Palestinian civilians are already besieged in the occupied Gaza Strip and are now also...
Take action to support defenders of justice under attack in Central America
Canadians acted with concerned solidarity and welcomed tens of thousands of refugees from Central America during decades of armed conflict and cruel, racist repression. Since warfare ended, communities, organizations and social movements have been working with enormous determination to build a more...
Crisis and Tactical Round Up Fall 2023: Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan and more
Solidarity with Women and Girls in Iran and Afghanistan, Protect Civilians in Sudan and Ethiopia, Ban the Scan and more Woman Life Freedom uprising anniversary September 16 The death in detention of 22-year-old Mahsa (Zhina) Amini on September 16, 2022, following her violent arrest by Iran’s...
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Online learning opportunities to expand your knowledge of human rights, campaigning, and skills for activism.
Extension of B.C, Alberta immigration detention contracts ‘appalling and unnecessary’
Amnesty International Canada condemns the temporary extension of immigration detention in British Columbia and Alberta jails.
Open Letter Calls on Federal Government to End the Incarceration of People in Immigration Detention
June 26, 2023 To: Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Sean Fraser Re: Inter-provincial transfers of people in immigration detention and renewed request to invest in alternatives to detention...
Open letter: Civil society groups decry inadequate consultation on Bill C-20
Bill C-20 proposes an oversight body for the Canada Border Services Agency and changes to how complaints about the RCMP are handled.
