By Craig Benjamin and Jackie Hansen, Campaigners , Earlier today, Amnesty International Canada released a press statement expressing deep disappointment over the recommendations in the final report of the Special […]

By Jacqueline Hansen, Amnesty International’s Major Campaigns and Women’s Human Rights Campaigner. “We can start with our future, our children, teach them love instead of hate… Violence, it’s easy to […]

Do you see how I see? Many ghosts in the afterglow of sunset nights Nature’s beauty lost by the loss of human rights Daughters deserted, mothers are murdered: the women […]

A new report by the House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women offers no real solutions to the widespread threats to the lives of Indigenous women in […]

Content warning: This press release contains descriptions of sexual violence and torture. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has inflicted widespread sexual violence on women and girls throughout Sudan’s two-year civil […]

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy compulsory veiling using arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, flogging, and even […]

Kurdish humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi, Kurdish dissident Verisheh Moradiand and human rights defender Sharifeh Mohammadi are the only known women facing execution after convictions for politically-motivated offenses in Iran. […]

Please join us on March 8, International Women’s Day, for the second webinar in this monthly series on the abolition of the death penalty. This series is sponsored by Amnesty […]

On March 8, people around the country will come together to celebrate International Women’s Day 2025 in Canada. It’s an annual global day that recognizes and celebrates women’s social, economic, cultural, and political achievements.

The former governor of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu province and two other senior army officers must be investigated for possible crimes against humanity committed while suppressing […]

Iranian authorities have adopted a new draconian law that further erases the human rights of women and girls, imposing the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe penalties to […]

Mariame Dabo, 59, lives in Tambacounda, in eastern Senegal. A survivor of female genital mutilation as a child, Mariame works tirelessly to raise community awareness of women’s and girls’ rights […]