Mauritania: This is their view of security?
, , 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 […]
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Mauritania: This is their view of security?
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 […]
It’s Pride Season
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 […]
It’s Pride Season
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 […]
El Salvador’s officials are playing Russian roulette with young woman’s life
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 […]
Fighting Back – Interview with Azza Hilal Suleiman from Egypt
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
