Sexual attacks on women in Egypt
Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher Diana Eltahawy writes from Cairo. Almost every girl and woman – regardless of age, social status or choice of attire – who has walked the streets […]
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Proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline should not go ahead without Indigenous consent
The community hearing phase of the Northern Gateway Pipeline environmental impact assessment wraps up this week in Vancouver. Craig Benjamin, Amnesty International Canada’s Campaigner for the Human Rights of Indigenous […]
Tea and tear gas in Tahrir Square
Post by Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa team, on the ground in Cairo. Egyptians have returned to Tahrir Square many times since Hosni Mubarak fell, but rarely in […]
Americas: Time and again, Indigenous rights trampled for development
When the El Cercado dam opened in November 2010, its Colombian project managers trumpeted it as an engineering triumph built entirely with national know-how. , Moreover, the project was touted […]
Implementation of Ipperwash Inquiry recommendations called into question
It’s been five years since a landmark provincial inquiry released its report into policing and Aboriginal land protests in Ontario. The Ontario Provincial Police claim that all the Ipperwash Inquiry’s […]