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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]