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By Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada. Follow Alex on Twitter: @AlexNeveAmnesty There is so much packed into the government’s current national security law reform, it is hard to […]
February 26, 2015
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By Tarek Chatila, Montreal-area activist and writer for Amnesty Canada’s Isr/OT/PA co-group “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” wrote French critic Alphonse Karr in 1849. Turbulent […]
January 25, 2015
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Don’t Let Down Your Guard: Standing together and speaking out for human rights – Year end message to Amnesty International supporters from Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada There were […]
December 17, 2014
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By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner There appears to be a rise in homophobia around the world. From Russia and Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, Uganda, and beyond, homosexuality […]
October 16, 2014
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By Kathy Price, Mexico Campaigner The photos arrived in a steady stream on my Facebook feed, a flood of images too numerous to include here – impossible to ignore. From […]
October 9, 2014
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By Mabel Au, Director of Amnesty International in Hong Kong. The streets of Hong Kong are hard to recognize these days. The exhilarating energy filling the city’s main roads, crowded […]
October 1, 2014
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by Tara Scurr, Business & Human Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada – from Guatemala City “It’s been hard, because it’s not easy to bear being spat at in the face, […]
September 29, 2014
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, by Alex Neve, Secretary General, and Tara Scurr, Business and Human Rights Campaigner , Amnesty International Canada , – Guatemala City, Guatemala, 18 September, 2014 , What better way to spend […]
September 19, 2014
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The skin across Sasha’s forehead and around his eyes is slightly yellow and there is a recent scab on his temple. He is healing well. Ten days before our meeting, […]
July 10, 2014
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On the morning of 27 May, Hanna, was sitting in her flat in eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, when there was a knock on the door. As her boyfriend Feodor […]
July 10, 2014
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Amina Filali committed suicide by swallowing rat poison in March 2012. She was 16 years old. Her desperate act showed the depth of her pain and despair: she must have felt that nobody […]
June 9, 2014
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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 […]
June 6, 2014
