The right to protest is under threat in Mexico
By Erika Guevara-Rosas and Edith Olivares Ferreto A year ago today, police officers repressed 93 people, most of them female students from the Escuela Normal Rural Mactumactzá, who had taken […]
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PUERTO RICO: Protect Access to Abortion
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 32/22 BELOW A recently published bill seeks to prohibit abortions after 22 weeks, or when a doctor determines that the foetus is viable, with the […]
Pride 2022 & Supporting LGBTI Rights During Conflict
January 7th marked an important moment for LGBTQ2S rights in Canada when the federal ban on conversion therapy officially came into effect. After years of advocacy from survivors and activists, […]
“They Will Not Stop Us!”: Solidarity with Environmental Rights Defenders
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres was blunt as he spoke at the release of the latest chilling report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on April 4: “Climate […]
Defenders of Land, Territory, Environment and Climate
Humanity is facing an environmental emergency of unprecedented proportions. Climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystems degradation and toxic pollution of air, water and soil are dramatic, interconnected processes that are severely […]
As temperatures rise, our solidarity action with threatened climate protectors is more important then ever
As government delegations at last November’s UN climate change conference debated what action to take to confront our global climate emergency, activists outside projected images of community leaders murdered for […]
Political leaders and corporate titans put profit and power ahead of people, betraying promises for fair recovery from pandemic
Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2021 Peddling false promises of a fair recovery from Covid-19 to address deep-seated inequalities world leaders colluded with corporate titans to hoard power […]
Ethiopia: Tigrayan forces murder, rape and pillage in attacks on civilians in Amhara towns
Fighters affiliated with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and girls – some as young as 14 – and looted private […]
Amnesty International Canada Statement on “Freedom Convoy 2022” Blockade
OTTAWA – Amnesty International has been following with great concern the developments relating to the Ottawa protests’ “Freedom Convoy 2022” blockade. “Amnesty International Canada is deeply troubled by the reports […]
Submission to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Militarization of Indigenous Lands
Submission to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Poeples
Americas: Amnesty International sounds alert over killings of human rights defenders and journalists in first month of 2022
February 2, 2022 With at least 20 human rights defenders and four journalists killed across the region in January, the first month of 2022 has demonstrated once again the dangers […]
Ethiopia: New wave of atrocities in Western Tigray
International investigations, access to detainees key to deter further abuses Amhara security forces are responsible for a surge of mass detentions, killings and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in the […]