Bitter anniversary for Egyptian women
By Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Program The streets are empty. The prisons are full. The fourth anniversary of Egypt’s “25 […]
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The national discussion about violence includes all of us
By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Events being reported in the Canadian media have launched a national conversation about violence against women. It is a difficult but […]
The ‘secret’ doctor on a mission to help Afghanistan’s women
By Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher at Amnesty International “Nearly every woman in Afghanistan has a painful story to tell,” says Dr Lima, an Afghan woman who decided to take action […]
Why is a national public inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women needed?
By Craig Benjamin, Campaigner for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples Ten years ago, when Amnesty International released its first research report on missing and murdered Indigenous women, we did […]
Stop making excuses for sexual violence
When Amnesty launched My Body My Rights, our global campaign on sexual and reproductive rights, earlier this year, we were met by unfavourable headlines in the Moroccan media. It’s time […]
Unspeakable acts of inhumanity as violence intensifies in the Central African Republic
Susanna Flood, Amnesty International’s Director of Media, blogs from Bangui , There is hatred in their eyes as they spit their words out at you: “Djotodia doit partir”, Michel Djotodia, […]
Unspeakable acts of inhumanity as violence intensifies in the Central African Republic
Susanna Flood, Amnesty International’s Director of Media, blogs from Bangui There is hatred in their eyes as they spit their words out at you: “Djotodia doit partir”, Michel Djotodia, transitional […]
Trapped in an endless cycle of violence – the plight of Darfuri women and girls
By Manar Idriss, Sudan researcher at Amnesty International After spending more than a week this November in eastern Chad, interviewing Darfuri refugees in two different refugee camps, I found myself […]
16 days of activism against gender-based violence
By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Since 1991, women’s rights activists from around the world have come together for 16 days in November and December to raise […]
Where is the revolution for women in Egypt?
By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner For months, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have been sounding the alarm bell about the erosion of women’s human […]
The killing of Sushmita Banerjee and Afghanistan’s ‘war on women’
By Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher at Amnesty’s International Secretariat in London, England Her body ridden with bullets and left on the outskirts of Paktika province in Afghanistan, Sushmita Banerjee’s killing […]
Egypt: Sexual assaults on women protestors continuing amid the political turmoil
Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher, blogs from Cairo While the world is focusing on the political fall-out of millions of people taking to the streets in Egypt, with widespread […]