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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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