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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

By Jacqueline Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner This week Canada had the rather unenviable position of chairing negotiations at the UN Human Rights Council on its annual resolution on […]