Street Surveillance and the War on Drugs
Rights Back At You | Episode 2 What does the future of harm reduction look like for communities that are already overpoliced and surveilled? In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, we connect […]
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THAILAND: Release activists and drop charges
Download a copy of the 2nd UA 56/22 below Amid an ongoing crackdown on peaceful protest, including charges against hundreds of people, the Thai authorities have revoked bail for two […]
Honduras: Xiomara Castro’s government must firmly deliver on human rights agenda
Amnesty International has issued a new open letter calling for the protection of human rights defenders in Honduras.
Russia: Two years after Aleksei Navalny’s arrest, Russian opposition figures suppressed, jailed or exiled
In the two years since mass protests in Russia against the politically motivated detention of prominent opposition activist Aleksei Navalny, the Russian authorities have been relentless in their attempts to dismantle the […]
HONDURAS: Two water defenders killed
Download a copy of the 1st UA 3/23 below Aly Magdaleno Domínguez Ramos and Jairo Bonilla Ayala, members of the popular resistance of Guapinol (department of Colón, northern Honduras) against […]
IRAN: Youth with mental disability risks execution
Download a copy of the 1st UA 6/23 below Mohammad Ghobadlou, a 22-year-old with mental disability is at grave risk of execution in connection with Iran’s nationwide protests. He has […]
BAHRAIN: Prisoner of Conscience Facing Reprisals
Download a copy of the 3rd UA 100/22 below Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja continues to be denied due process by the court. On December 29, 2022, an appeal […]
Afghanistan: UN Security Council meeting must focus on reversing the Taliban’s mistreatment of women and girls
The United Nation Security Council (UNSC) closed-door meeting on Afghanistan – tomorrow – must focus on how to reverse the stifling ban by the Taliban on women and girls from […]
Canada: Indigenous land defenders criminalized, surveilled and harassed as pipeline construction continues on Wet’suwet’en territory
January 7, 2022 marks the fourth anniversary of the RCMP's first raid on a checkpoint established by Wet’suwet’en and other land defenders.
Human Rights wins in 2022
Confronted with what can sometimes seem like an endless cycle of bad news in the media, it’s easy to feel despondent. But, amid the gloom, there were plenty of good news […]
Peru: Crisis in the country must be addressed with full respect for human rights
Amnesty International is calling on Peruvian authorities to respect demonstrators' right to peaceful protest.
Colombia: Guaranteeing justice in cases of gender-based violence during repression of National Strike must be central to any police reform
A new Amnesty International report documents sexual and other forms of gender-based violence committed by Colombian police during the repression of the 2021 National Strike.
