Back in March, we opened a competition with the launch of My Body My Rights, our global campaign on sexual and reproductive rights. Inspired by a series of hyper-real images created exclusively for us by Japan-based artist Hikaru Cho, we wanted you to show us what the campaign means to you....

Back in March, we opened a competition with the launch of My Body My Rights, our global campaign on sexual and reproductive rights. Inspired by a series of hyper-real images created exclusively for us by Japan-based artist Hikaru Cho, we wanted you to show us what the campaign means to you. ,...

Caption:A Bangladeshi mourner and relative of a victim of the Rana Plaza building collapse weeps as she takes part in a protest marking the first anniversary of the disaster at the site where the building once stood in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka on April 24, 2014. The Rana Plaza building...

  Standing with individuals, tackling global problems 2013 year-end message from Amnesty International – by Alex Neve Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada   One thing so powerful and important about Amnesty International’s work is that we strive to make a difference in the...

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Since 1991, women’s rights activists from around the world have come together for 16 days in November and December to raise awareness about gender-based violence, show solidarity with fellow activists around the world, and take...

By Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London, England As the humanitarian and human rights crisis caused by Syria’s internal armed conflict shows no signs of abating, two important announcements made this week help us to...

by Neil Sammonds , Syria Researcher at Amnesty International ,   , , Refugees escaping the conflict in Syria have led to Za’atri refugee camp in Jordan becoming the world’s second largest refugee camp in the world. , Twelve kilometres south of the border with Syria lies the Za’atri...

by Neil Sammonds Syria Researcher at Amnesty International   Refugees escaping the conflict in Syria have led to Za’atri refugee camp in Jordan becoming the world’s second largest refugee camp in the world. Twelve kilometres south of the border with Syria lies the Za’atri refugee...

, , Leila Mint Abdel Aziz’s brother is detained in Guantanamo , By Alex Neve, Secretary General Amnesty International Canada , From all the conversations I had with survivors of human rights abuses and their relatives in the ten days I spent in Mauritania recently, one question has stayed in my...

Leila Mint Abdel Aziz’s brother is detained in Guantanamo By Alex Neve, Secretary General Amnesty International Canada From all the conversations I had with survivors of human rights abuses and their relatives in the ten days I spent in Mauritania recently, one question has stayed in my mind. A...

by George Harvey Action Circle Coordinator on LGBT issues in Toronto Get organized for Pride Season – Check Out Amnesty’s Pride Activist Resource Kit Pride season has arrived for most of Canada and Pride events have begun to take place in communities such as BC’s Fraser Valley. One of...

by George Harvey , Action Circle Coordinator on LGBT issues in Toronto , Get organized for Pride Season – Check Out Amnesty’s Pride Activist Resource Kit , Pride season has arrived for most of Canada and Pride events have begun to take place in communities such as BC’s Fraser Valley....