By Jackie Hansen, Women’s Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada In May 2015, Meenakshi Kumari, her 15 year old sister (whom we are not naming because she is a minor), and […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Watch this short video by Up for Debate supporters! My number is 0. Zero is the number of times that women’s […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner , Watch this short video by Up for Debate supporters! , My number is 0. Zero is the number of times […]

With the release of a new report today, the RCMP confirmed that it is no longer attempting to track murders of First Nations, Inuit and Métis women across all jurisdictions […]

With the release of a new report today, the RCMP confirmed that it is no longer attempting to track murders of First Nations, Inuit and Métis women across all jurisdictions […]

By Craig Benjamin and Jackie Hansen Last month, federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt disclosed previously unreleased RCMP statistics about the numbers of murders committed by Indigenous men. The Minister […]

By Craig Benjamin and Jackie Hansen Last month, federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt disclosed previously unreleased RCMP statistics about the numbers of murders committed by Indigenous men. The Minister […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner , Afghanistan is a dangerous place. It’s particularly dangerous for women, who all too often experience threats and violence simply because […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Afghanistan is a dangerous place. It’s particularly dangerous for women, who all too often experience threats and violence simply because of […]

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Campaigning against laws in Iran which discriminate against women and girls has just gotten a whole lot harder for Bahareh Hedayat […]

By Stella Jegher, Amnesty International Switzerland , This International Women’s Day, we look back 20 years to a historic UN meeting in Beijing that saw world leaders make bold commitments […]

By Jackie Hansen and Craig Benjamin Last week, the National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls brought together family members of missing and murdered Indigenous women and […]