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 […]

Responding to the Trump administration’s announcement that the United States is withdrawing from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties, Erika Guevara Rosas, Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, said:  “This is […]

Bill 6, Ontario’s “Safer Municipalities Act”, is now law. Despite being framed as a public safety measure, its real effect is to deepen a long-standing colonial pattern: punishing poverty, expanding police control […]

Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted Late one summer’s night in 2018, I was walking with a friend through central Thessaloniki when a man […]

All forced returns of refugees and asylum seekers to Afghanistan must immediately end, Amnesty International said, as the latest UN figures revealed that Iran and Pakistan alone have unlawfully expelled […]

States must demonstrate their commitment to international justice to ensure genuine accountability for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for all those in the Occupied Palestinian Territory […]