Submission to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Militarization of Indigenous Lands
Submission to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Poeples
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How will you contribute to People Power and fight Climate Injustice in 2022?
Stay hopeful by being organized If the hit movie, Don’t Look Up, taught us anything, its that organizing ourselves and not leaving it solely to the self-interested and powerful, is […]
COP26: Leaders’ catastrophic failure on climate shows they have forgotten who they should serve
At COP26, world leaders chose to ignore and bargain away our rights. People must be at the centre of our global response to the climate crisis - not profit, not industry, not nationalism.
Write for Rights: Nassima & Germain are free!
We have more exciting news to share about some of the courageous people you supported during our global Write for Rights 2020 campaign. Thanks to your support and efforts, three more prisoners of […]
Defending Water, Defending Land
The climate crisis is becoming ever more urgent. It is nothing less than a global emergency and the greatest human rights challenge of our time. Indeed, climate change threatens the […]
The fearless young leaders the world needs right now
AMERICAS “The only way to heal was to take action” – Jaclyn Corin, 17, USA I never imagined it would happen to me. Parkland was labelled the safest community in […]
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Learn More Rushing Headfirst into an Abyss of Human Rights? Submission to the 45th session of the UPR Working Group, January-February 2024 On the frontline: Defending Indigenous lands and Indigenous […]
Colombia: Amnesty International publishes a ‘letter from the world’ demanding protection for defender Jani Silva
Today, on Earth Day, Amnesty International launched its “A Letter from the World” campaign to demand that Colombian authorities immediately take effective measures to guarantee the safety of environmental defender […]
NYAAC Members Reflect on Write for Rights 2020 Cases
Members of Amnesty Canada’s National Youth Action and Advisory Committee (NYAAC) share their thoughts on the cases from Write for Rights 2020. It’s not too late to sign-up, you can […]
Write for Rights: Meet the people inspiring calls for justice around the world
Every year, on or around December 10th, International Human Rights Day, people from across Canada and around the world write millions of letters, emails, tweets, Facebook posts and postcards for […]
We have come far and have far to go still
35 years ago, on a wintry evening in early 1985, I attended my first Amnesty International meeting. I had just begun studying law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, with an entirely unformed notion of becoming […]
Hong Kong’s national security law: 10 things you need to know
On 30 June, China’s top legislature unanimously passed a new national security law for Hong Kong that entered into force in the territory the same day, just before midnight. The […]