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 […]

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 […]

It’s hard to miss the increasing debates around the word “gender”. The last few decades have seen historic gains in the struggle for equality of access to rights and opportunities […]

On the two-year anniversary of the outbreak of Sudan’s civil war, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara Rosas, said:  “Today is a day of […]

Sandra Domínguez, a Mexican human rights defender, and her husband, Alexander Hernández, have gone missing. Sandra’s family reported their disappearance to the Office of the Attorney General of Oaxaca. The […]

Responding to reports of escalating violence in El Fasher, in Sudan’s North Darfur region, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said; “Civilians are caught in […]

The following oral statement was submitted for Item 6 Consideration of UPR Reports: Canada at the 55th Session of the Human Rights Council on March 25, 2024. Mr. President, Amnesty […]

Following the spiral of violence that erupted after armed gangs took control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other areas of Haiti in an attempt to force the resignation of prime […]