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 so many reminders during 2014 of how deeply important solidarity is in our...

by By James Lynch, Refugee and Migrants’ Rights researcher, in northern Iraq. Everywhere in northern Iraq thousands of people driven from their homes by the conflict are now struggling to survive in grim conditions. As winter approaches it can only get worse. Near Derabon, close to the Turkish...

Syria is a Dangerous Place for Journalists – But Here’s Why We Need Them There by Geoffrey Mock, Egypt country specialist and chair of the Middle East County Specialist, Amnesty USA. After three years of the Syrian uprising, it often appears like the world is tuning out. Deaths continue on a...

By Gloria Nafziger, Refugee, Migrants and Country Campaigner Maran was a journalist and owned his own media company in a country riddled with conflict. Believing that the media was a tool that he could use, he wanted to tell the story of his people to the world.  Telling these stories was a way to...

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 Amnesty Canada Secretary General Alex Neve Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird’s current trip through the Middle East offers a tremendous opportunity to press a strong message that increased respect for human rights – by all governments and by all parties to the region’s various conflicts...