Growing up in Afghanistan was very hard as a girl: we didn’t have the right to an education or freedom of movement. I grew up in a village in a […]

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.

Responding to today’s decision by Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal to sentence former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal to death after convicting them in absentia […]

Military courts continue to investigate possible human rights violations and crimes under international law committed by members of the Colombian security forces, despite express prohibitions in national and international standards, […]

Thirty years after the Nigerian government brutally executed environmental activists, the Ogoni Nine, for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, their friends and family are still […]

From 10-21 November, world leaders, scientists, activists, negotiators, diplomats, Indigenous Peoples and other affected communities will gather in Belém, Brazil for COP30, the annual UN climate conference.   COP30 arrives at […]

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.

Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people thus far in 2025, the highest number of yearly executions in Iran that the organization has recorded in at least 15 years, said […]

A new report by Amnesty International reveals how the militarization of public security in Ecuador has facilitated enforced disappearances at the hands of the Armed Forces, leaving entire families in […]

View Archives Spark Newsletter September 2025  |  Vol 2  |  No. 2 Spark is Amnesty International Canada’s monthly guide to activism and human rights in Canada (formerly known as the […]

View Archives The Candle Fall 2025  |  Vol 24  |  No. 2 Amnesty International Canada’s Candle has long symbolized our collective resolve to confront human rights abuses with the glow […]

Between June and August, 26 fisher families from San Silvestre, Barrancabermeja, were forced to leave their homes after receiving threats to their safety. On July 5 and again on August […]