The United States government’s abrupt and irresponsible termination of foreign assistance is putting the health and human rights of millions of people in Yemen who depend on humanitarian aid at […]

Please join us on April 12 at 12:30pm-2:30pm EDT for the third webinar in this monthly series on the abolition of the death penalty. This series is sponsored by Amnesty International […]

Human rights must be at the forefront of Canada's response to President Trump's outrageous threats, writes Amnesty Canada's Ketty Nivyabandi.

The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal areas are held accountable and take immediate steps to ensure that […]

Your vote is your megaphone. Your ballot is your power. During the 2025 election, let's put #RightsFirst and #VoteForRights.

States and companies are manufacturing, promoting and selling electric shock equipment that is being used for torture and other ill-treatment, said Amnesty International, in a new report calling for a […]

Four human rights defenders in Venezuela are unfairly imprisoned for standing up for justice. Javier Tarazona has been behind bars since 2021. In 2024, authorities detained Rocío San Miguel, Carlos […]

On October 4, 2024, human rights defender Sandra Domínguez and her husband, Alexander Hernández, disappeared from their home in María Lombardo de Caso, San Juan Cotzocón, Oaxaca, Mexico. Sandra’s family […]

Pakhshan Azizi, a humanitarian worker and human rights defender from Iran’s Kurdish minority, is in grave danger of execution. On February 5, 2025, her lawyers learned that Branch Nine of […]

The proposed Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement threatens Indigenous rights in Ecuador and must be rejected by Canadian lawmakers.

Responding to reports that Iran’s Supreme Court rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction and death sentence of humanitarian aid worker Pakhshan Azizi, 40, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish […]

The international community must take urgent action to ensure accountability for atrocities in Myanmar, 46 organizations said today ahead of the four-year anniversary of the 1 February 2021 military coup. […]