Amnesty International Canada urges universities and government authorities to ensure the safe protection of students' right to protest.

Thousands of Colombians claimed their right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, during months of demonstrations for justice and peace in 2021. Women, youth, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendent communities and […]

Amnesty International has devised 25 rules to try and stop human rights abuses being perpetrated through the improper use of rubber bullets and other projectiles by police and security forces, the organization […]

Law enforcement agencies across the USA are failing to facilitate people’s fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly, and to protect protests and counter-protests from violent disruption by armed groups […]

In response to reports of several deaths during recent days in the context of anti-corruption protests that began earlier this month in Haiti, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, […]

On March 18, Hungary’s Parliament rushed through a new law that effectively bans Pride marches. It uses the country’s anti-LGBTI “Propaganda Law” to justify blocking events that show support for […]

On April 13, 2025, Joel Amaral—also known as MC Trufafá—a 34-year-old artist and national mobilizer for opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane, was shot by unidentified attackers in Quelimane, Zambézia Province. The […]

The moratorium on social security contributions ended on March 23. The government has announced that it will not extend this deadline, citing a fiscal adjustment plan that has severely affected […]

Turkish authorities must end the use of unnecessary and indiscriminate force by security forces against peaceful demonstrators and investigate unlawful acts of violence committed by police against protesters, said Amnesty […]

In response to a U.S. jury in North Dakota ordering Greenpeace to pay at least $660m to the fossil fuel company Energy Transfer, having found the organization responsible for defamation […]

Reacting to reports that Maria Ponomarenko, an unjustly imprisoned Russian journalist and anti-war activist, is at serious risk of further self-harm, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, said: “The Russian […]

Mozambique’s Frelimo-led government must urgently launch investigations into reports of widespread human rights violations committed during the ongoing crackdown on protests following disputed national elections and commit to making the […]