By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner For months, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have been sounding the alarm bell about the erosion of women’s human […]

By Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher at Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London, England Her body ridden with bullets and left on the outskirts of Paktika province in Afghanistan, Sushmita Banerjee’s killing […]

Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher, blogs from Cairo While the world is focusing on the political fall-out of millions of people taking to the streets in Egypt, with widespread […]

By Jacqueline Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner This week Canada had the rather unenviable position of chairing negotiations at the UN Human Rights Council on its annual resolution on […]

Recent comments by the RCMP concerning the number of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada do a great disservice by creating uncertainty, where clarity and urgency are required. The lives of […]

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 […]

Dear Prime Minister Carney,  We are writing to express our concern over recent statements and developments in Canadian foreign policy. While the world is changing and the threats Canada is […]

Responding to reports of violence and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on civilians in El Fasher, in Sudan’s North Darfur State, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, […]

A broad coalition of civil-society groups urges the Canadian government to withdraw its two border bills: Bill C-12 and Bill C-2.

In December 2024, Georgian actor Andro Chichinadze was arrested while joining pro-European protests. Authorities accused him of throwing an object at police and charged him, along with 10 others, with […]

The Taliban de-facto authorities must immediately put an end to the arbitrary and unfair delivery of justice by reinstating a formal constitutional and legal framework and the rule of law […]

Since Pakistan introduced its “Illegal Foreigners’ Repatriation Plan” in October 2023, more than 1 million Afghan refugees and asylum seekers have been forced to return to Afghanistan. This mass return […]