The Trump White House’s anti-rights campaign is turbocharging threats to human rights, Amnesty International warns in its 2025 annual report.

Red Dress Day 2025, held every May 5th, is a National Day of remembrance and activism honouring the lives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirited People (MMIWG2S+).

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.