Features
Ellen Gabriel, a Mohawk artist, educator and activist from Kanehsatà:ke, is well known in Canada as a powerful voice for rights of Indigenous peoples. Amnesty International has been honoured to work alongside […]
September 30, 2014
Features
By Conor Fortune, News Writer at Amnesty International, who recently returned from St Petersburg Ekaterina Khomenko’s throat was slit when a street cleaner found her in a car with the […]
September 18, 2014
Features
By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada , , The images are haunting. The message shocking. “Am I next?” , , Holly Jarrett, cousin of […]
September 9, 2014
Features
Travel guides describe Mexico as one of the world’s great civilisations, whose landscapes are as stunning as they are diverse. But there’s a dark flipside to the family-friendly resorts and […]
September 4, 2014
Features
By Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada So many moments stay with me. During the course of this recent mission in South Sudan people recounted unimaginable suffering and acute […]
July 14, 2014
Features
By Milena Buyum, Amnesty’s Turkey Campaigner On 2 June last year, Özge Ünlütezcan, a 24-year-old drama student, grabbed her phone to send out a series of tweets. Shortly after, she […]
July 11, 2014
Features
By Kathy Price, Colombia Campaigner It was two years ago that courageous Indigenous women and men in Colombia sent photo messages to Canada to tell us about deadly assaults on […]
June 19, 2014
Features
By Atila Roque, Director at Amnesty International Brazil Brazil is about to host the biggest football frenzy on the planet, where teams from around the world fight for the Cup […]
June 6, 2014
Features
by Craig Benjamin, Indigenous Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada A leading United Nations human rights expert says the situation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada has reached “crisis […]
May 12, 2014
Features
by Craig Benjamin, , Indigenous Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada , A leading United Nations human rights expert says the situation of First Nations, Inuit and Métis in Canada has […]
May 12, 2014
Features
By Eskinder Nega, with Kaliti Prison – Originally published on Ze-Habesha Website The mistakes of my life. Ah! I could go on and on and on about them. (Warning, I am aiming […]
April 2, 2014
Members in Action
, By, Kim Irving Cahill, Maritimes Regional Activism Coordinator , Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Loretta Saunders, a young Inuk women who went missing in Halifax on […]
March 3, 2014
