In June 2024, three relatives of political workers from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) were forcibly disappeared. On June 6, Professors Mazhar-ul-Hassan and Zahoor-ul-Hassan, brothers of PTI member Azhar Mashwani, were disappeared. […]

Toronto, ON – July 2, 2024 – Amnesty International Canada and the Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) regret the Ontario Superior Court’s decision to grant the injunction sought […]

Every single minute of every day, 20 people around the world make one of the most difficult decisions of their lives. They leave their homes to escape war, persecution or […]

“Over 600 people drowned in the Pylos shipwreck, including my brother. They are not numbers. They are people,” writes Oday Al Talab on the anniversary of the deadly disaster. Oday […]

The Russian authorities are taking increasingly severe reprisals against children and their families, particularly those opposing Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, in their relentless crackdown on all dissent, Amnesty International said […]

Pierina Nochetti, a lesbian human rights activist, is facing criminal charges for allegedly painting graffiti to protest the disappearance of a young trans man in Necochea, Argentina. She could be […]

In 2023, you helped us Be There Be There is an Amnesty International program that supports people around the world whose lives have been torn apart by conflict and crisis, […]

Good News YEMEN AFGHANISTAN IRAN CONGO YEMEN On 16 April 2023, Yemeni journalists Akram al-Walidi, Abdelkhaleq Amran, Hareth Hamid, and Tawfiq al‑Mansouri were released as part of a prisoner exchange […]

Amnesty report tracks years-long campaign of criminalization and unlawful surveillance against Wet’suwet’en land defenders The pipeline has already caused environmental destruction and cut the Wet’suwet’en people off from their ancestral […]

A new Amnesty International report probes the alarming gender bias permeating Guatemala's criminalization of women human rights defenders.

Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi faces execution after an Esfahan Revolutionary Court sentenced him to death in April 2024. His sentencing relates solely to his involvement in the “Woman Life Freedom” […]

The report explores surveillance faced by dozens of Hong Kong and Chinese students studying abroad, including at universities in Canada.