Indigenous women from Val d’Or, Quebec, a small town located about 500km northwest of Montreal, alleged that officers from the Sûreté du Québec (SQ, Quebec’s provincial police) have committed serious crimes against […]

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research, Amnesty International , The long-awaited fifth season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday, April 12. Broadcast in 170 countries, the show shocks […]

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research, Amnesty International The long-awaited fifth season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday, April 12. Broadcast in 170 countries, the show shocks viewers […]

  Supporters “Dance for Rights” to raise awareness for Amnesty’s global letter-writing event Write for Rights This past Saturday on December 6th, supporters of Amnesty International took to the streets […]

By Mustafa Qadri, Amnesty International’s Pakistan Researcher For anyone following the news from Pakistan, the past few weeks have made for grim reading when it comes to violence against women. […]

By Adotei Akwei. Johanna Lee contributed to this post. Originally published by AIUSA. In mid-April, Islamist armed group Boko Haram abducted 276 schoolgirls aged 15-18 from the village of Chibok in […]

Amina Filali committed suicide by swallowing rat poison in March 2012. She was 16 years old. Her desperate act showed the depth of her pain and despair: she must have felt that nobody […]

By Adotei Akwei, Guest Writer – originally published on Amnesty USA Blog. On April 14, 234 school girls between the ages of 16 and 18 were abducted from the Government Girls […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigner and Women’s Rights Campaigner Basic freedoms are under threat in Russia. Restrictive new laws are making it difficult for NGOs to carry out their work. […]

By Val Croft, an Amnesty activist from Toronto with a passionate commitment to human rights in Guatemala.   Photo: An Ixil woman is sworn in before giving her testimony in the […]

On June 24, 26 fishing families living near the lakes and rivers around Barrancabermeja were forcibly displaced. They were moved to Bucaramanga, the capital of Santander department. Back on February […]

As Amnesty International signed on to a joint statement ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the ‘709’ crackdown on human rights lawyers in China, the organization’s China Director Sarah Brooks […]