Racial bias in facial recognition algorithms
Facial recognition makes racial discrimination worse. Learn more about how it threatens human rights and take action to ban it.
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Iran: Detained Belgian aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele must be released immediately!
Iranian authorities are subjecting Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. He is held in solitary confinement in a windowless basement cell and is denied […]
Don’t You Be My Neighbour
Rights Back At You | Episode 3 Rowa Mohamed showed up to support her neighbours at an encampment eviction and was injured by police during the protest. Her experience of […]
Crisis and Tactical Round Up: Afghanistan, End Israeli Apartheid, Iran, Torture-Free Trade Treaty
Afghanistan Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2022, the Taliban have mounted a sustained attack on human rights, persecuting minority groups, violently clamping down on peaceful protests, and using […]
2022 in rights: Covid-19 legacy, rising authoritarianism and Russian aggression in Ukraine sum-up 2022
Op-ed by Deprose Muchena, senior director for regional human rights impact at Amnesty International. It’s been 74 years since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the UN […]
Write for Rights 2022: Canada celebrates world’s largest human rights event with first in-person Write-A-Thons in three years
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign sees advocates in more than 200 countries and territories take millions of actions in support of people whose human rights are under attack.
Division, distrust and despair – Egypt votes on a new Constitution
By Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s North Africa Researcher Arriving in Cairo a few days before the constitutional referendum held on Saturday 15 December, I couldn’t remember a more bitterly divided […]
Viet Nam: Activist Bùi Tuấn Lâm Held in Solitary Confinement
Since 2023, Vietnamese activist and well-known noodle seller Bùi Tuấn Lâm, also known as “Green Onion Bae,” has been imprisoned in Xuân Lộc prison in Đồng Nai province. Authorities detained […]
Spark Newsletter December 2025
Amnesty's Spark newsletter is your guide to activism in Canada. Read for updates on our campaigns and find out how you can take action.
Hong Kong: Prisons rife with violence and inhumane treatment, inmate testimony reveals
Former Hong Kong prison inmates have told of inhumane and degrading conditions in new research published today by Amnesty International, as the organization called for authorities to urgently investigate the […]
Hong Kong: Conviction of Jimmy Lai sounds death knell for press freedom
Responding to today’s conviction of Hong Kong newspaper founder Jimmy Lai on national security charges, Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks said: “The predictability of today’s verdict does not make […]
FIFA needs to act on human rights
As FIFA Awards “Peace Prize,” Coalition Calls for Concrete Protections for Workers, Athletes, Fans, Journalists, and Children (Washington, DC, December 3, 2025) – FIFA, the international soccer governing body, needs […]