UPDATE: May 30th, Court denies Beatriz her appeal for access to a therapeutic abortion. By Esther Major, Central America researcher at Amnesty InternationalLess than a month ago, few people knew who Beatriz […]

Footage of Egyptian soldiers mercilessly beating a “red-hooded woman” during a protest went viral last year. Now, AZZA HILAL SULEIMAN tells Amnesty International Senior Editor, Clare Fermont, her story. NOTE: Amnesty […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]