By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Campaigning against laws in Iran which discriminate against women and girls has just gotten a whole lot harder for Bahareh Hedayat […]

By Stella Jegher, Amnesty International Switzerland , This International Women’s Day, we look back 20 years to a historic UN meeting in Beijing that saw world leaders make bold commitments […]

By Jackie Hansen and Craig Benjamin Last week, the National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls brought together family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women and […]

As Nigerians prepare to go to the polling stations to elect their President on March 28, we take a look at some of the main human rights issues facing people […]

By Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Program The streets are empty. The prisons are full. The fourth anniversary of Egypt’s “25 […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Events being reported in the Canadian media have launched a national conversation about violence against women. It is a difficult but […]

By Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher at Amnesty International “Nearly every woman in Afghanistan has a painful story to tell,” says Dr Lima, an Afghan woman who decided to take action […]

By Craig Benjamin, Campaigner for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples Ten years ago, when Amnesty International released its first research report on missing and murdered Indigenous women, we did […]

When Amnesty launched My Body My Rights, our global campaign on sexual and reproductive rights, earlier this year, we were met by unfavourable headlines in the Moroccan media. It’s time […]

Susanna Flood, Amnesty International’s Director of Media, blogs from Bangui , There is hatred in their eyes as they spit their words out at you: “Djotodia doit partir”, Michel Djotodia, […]

Susanna Flood, Amnesty International’s Director of Media, blogs from Bangui There is hatred in their eyes as they spit their words out at you: “Djotodia doit partir”, Michel Djotodia, transitional […]

By Manar Idriss, Sudan researcher at Amnesty International After spending more than a week this November in eastern Chad, interviewing Darfuri refugees in two different refugee camps, I found myself […]