New Global Campaign: #WeDefend
Human rights defenders are people who stand up for justice and equality in sometimes extraordinary circumstances. But they are under attack. Around the world, brave people who take a stand […]
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Afghanistan: Civilian casualties show how unsafe it is for refugees to be returned
Attacks on civilians in the first three months of this year and the inability of the Afghan government to ensure their adequate protection show that Afghanistan remains an unsafe country […]
Death Penalty: World’s biggest executioner China must come clean about ‘grotesque’ level of capital punishment
Under strict embargo until 00:01 BST (07.01 HKT/ 23:01 GMT) 11 April 2017 1,032 executions worldwide in 2016, down 37% from 2015 (1,634) Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan join […]
Spanish corporate giant Ferrovial makes millions from Australia’s torture of refugees on Nauru
Released 00:01 BST on 05 April 2017 A major corporation responsible for running the Australian government’s refugee “processing” centre on Nauru is making millions of dollars from a system that […]
Amnesty Peterbourough Members in Action!
On March 8 Amnesty Internatonal members from Group 46 in Peterbourough hosted their annual fundraising and awareness dinner. This year their special guests were former Iranian-Canadian prisoner, Hamid Ghassemi Shall […]
President Trump’s Global Assault on Women’s Rights
By Tarah Demant, Senior Director, Identity and Discrimination Unit, Amnesty International USA It’s hard to keep track of the various assaults on human rights coming out of the Trump administration. It’s […]
Trump’s revised travel ban: Xenophobic, Inhumane and Just Plain Stupid
New packaging, same fear and hate. Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration may have been revised, but it remains blatantly discriminatory. Thinly disguised as a national security measure, Trump’s travel […]
Trump’s revised travel ban: Xenophobic, Inhumane and Just Plain Stupid
New packaging, same fear and hate. Donald Trump’s Executive Order on immigration may have been revised, but it remains blatantly discriminatory. Thinly disguised as a national security measure, Trump’s travel […]
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE REVIEW OF THE SIXTH PERIODIC REPORT OF CANADA BY THE UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE
SUMMARY OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S SUBMISSIONS TO THE UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE Canada underwent its sixth review of its compliance to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading […]
Nowruz with a Human Rights Twist
The Persian holiday Nowruz (نوروز – new day) is an ancient holiday celebrated on March 20th, the first day of spring, to welcome in the new year. This holiday presents an opporunity to […]
‘Politics of demonization’ breeding division and fear
RELEASED WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2017 (00.01 GMT) Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2016 to 2017 Risk of domino effect as powerful states backtrack on human […]
Hoodfar, Fahmy, Ghassemi-Shall + Azizi: Release Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour
Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour has spent more than 8 years in Iran’s Evin prison. FREE SAEED MALEKPOUR He shouldn’t be there. He should be at home in Canada, taking walks in the country, […]
