Emirlendris Benítez is a 42-year-old mother, sister, and tradeswoman who in August 2018 was arbitrarily detained for political reasons and subjected to torture in Venezuela. She now faces an unjust […]

Kamile Wayit, a Uyghur student studying in Henan, was taken away by the police on 12 December 2022, after she returned to her home in Atush, Xijiang, for a holiday. […]

The death in custody of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s “morality” police in September 2022 sparked a nationwide uprising that continues into 2023, with women and girls leading […]

Facial recognition makes racial discrimination worse. Learn more about how it threatens human rights and take action to ban it.

Iranian authorities are subjecting Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. He is held in solitary confinement in a windowless basement cell and is denied […]

Rights Back At You | Episode 5 Borders have long been sites of colonial enforcement about who can come and go and how Indigenous peoples are treated. Canada is no […]

This submission by Amnesty International Canada is in response to the Government of Canada’s invitation to consult with Canadian stakeholders regarding our views, reflections and priorities in relation to a […]

Rights Back At You | Episode 4 Gyasi Symonds filed a complaint with the Human Rights Commission after being street checked by Halifax Police. He won. Despite his victory, street-level […]

Rights Back At You | Episode 2 What does the future of harm reduction look like for communities that are already overpoliced and surveilled? In Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, we connect […]

There is a crisis of extreme gravity in the South American country of Peru – so grave, in fact, that Amnesty has deployed a specialized continental crisis response team to […]

Afghanistan Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2022, the Taliban have mounted a sustained attack on human rights, persecuting minority groups, violently clamping down on peaceful protests, and using […]

Rights Back At You | Episode 1 Meet Derrick Ingram. After he shared a photo of himself from a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest, the New York Police Department surrounded […]