As 2020 dawns, we face consequential times for human-rights protection around the world. If ever there was a need for a resolution for a new decade, this is it: put human rights first. A tumultuous decade of widespread conflict and demonizing politics is wrapping up; far too much war, alongside the...

  “This is one of those times; one of those moments in history.  You either show up or you prepare to face your conscience.” That was how an over-stretched immigration lawyer — who moved to Brownsville, Texas to join volunteers responding to Donald Trump’s assault on the...

Climate change was the most commonly cited among most important issues facing the world, in a survey of more than 10,000 young people, including Canadians Young people living inside a “failed system”, warns Amnesty International Leaders will face a “growing legitimacy crisis” unless they...

From calling out climate injustice to calling for women’s rights, tackling homelessness to exposing police brutality, children and young people are a leading force for change. At 3.1 billion, they account for 42% of the world’s population – many of them in the Global South. Too often, they...

Jaya Bordeleau-Cass and André Capretti are the 2019-2020 Public Interest Articling Fellows at Amnesty International Canada. They will be posting updates about the Safe Third Country Agreement hearing throughout the week. Shame. Frustration. Rage. Disappointment.   Court hearings can be dry, but...

Demonstrators to rally outside Toronto court in support of legal challenge to flawed Safe Third Country Agreement 29 October 2019 From November 4th to 8th the Federal Court of Canada will hear a challenge to the designation of the U.S. as a safe third country for refugees. The court will hear that...

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Canada will have its next federal election by October 21st, 2019. Hateful rhetoric and divisive politics are on the rise, but many human rights issues will be left off the table this election. We must make human rights an election issue. Register now to help make human rights an election issue...

Authorities in Cyprus have finally allowed Ahmed H, a Syrian man unjustly convicted in Hungary in a blatant misuse of terrorism-related charges, to return to his family today. Responding to the news that Ahmed – who had been jailed in Hungary in 2015, would return home, Giorgos Kosmopoulos,...

Amnesty International urges Canada to lead on providing education for Rohingya youth, following new report Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced around 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, refugees are still trapped in unbearable conditions in overcrowded camps,...

January As a tribute to Julián Carrillo, an environmental rights defender killed in October 2018, we launched Caught between bullets and neglect, a digest on Mexico’s failure to protect environmental human rights defenders. Just a few hours after the launch, two suspects in Julián’s...