A decade after the overthrow of Muammar al-Gaddafi, justice has yet to be delivered to victims of war crimes and serious human rights violations including unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, torture, […]

Members of Amnesty Canada’s National Youth Action and Advisory Committee (NYAAC) share their thoughts on the cases from Write for Rights 2020. It’s not too late to sign-up, you can […]

New innovative and interactive online tool launched today will help raise awareness about rape as a violation of human rights and challenge pervasive stereotypes in society, said Amnesty International on […]

By Josefina Salomón & Christopher Alford For decades, women human rights defenders across Latin America have been fighting an uphill battle to ensure sexual and reproductive rights, including access to […]

Manitoba Hydro states that its operations are “good for Manitobans, good for our environment.” But good for which Manitobans? Decades of Manitoba Hydro operations in the north of the province […]

Amnesty International sent an open letter to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador today requesting a meeting and expressing its concern over the government’s response to the grave human rights crisis […]

From uprisings across the Arab world and the rise of global protest movements, to the resurgence of the politics of hate, and concerns over the misuse of big data and […]

  “This is one of those times; one of those moments in history.  You either show up or you prepare to face your conscience.” That was how an over-stretched immigration […]

Climate change was the most commonly cited among most important issues facing the world, in a survey of more than 10,000 young people, including Canadians Young people living inside a […]

Nearly one year after Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office as president, his government has failed to make substantial progress on resolving the human rights crisis in Mexico, said Amnesty […]

Canada will have its next federal election by October 21st, 2019. Hateful rhetoric and divisive politics are on the rise, but many human rights issues will be left off the […]

OTTAWA – Today, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May publicly committed to participating in a federal leaders’ debate on women’s rights and gender equality in the […]