Photo: via www.jacobinmag.com – Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM): an alliance of lesbian and gay men in London (1984/85) who came out in solidarity of the British miners (in Wales) who were […]

  The rape of a teenage girl ordered by a village council in ‘revenge’ for a rape allegedly committed by her brother is the latest in a long series of […]

The Tunisian government must demonstrate its commitment to human rights by accepting recommendations on combating torture, ending discrimination and protecting women and girls from sexual and gender based violence, said […]

UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Sixteenth Session Thursday April 27, 2017 Agenda Item 4 Speaker: Grand Chief Wilton Littlechild Joint Statement by: Confederacy of Treaty No. 6; Amnesty International; […]

SUMMARY OF BILL C-279 AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S POSITION ON THE PROPOSED LAW Bill C-279, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code (Gender Identity) was a […]

17 MAY 2010 SUMMARY OF BILL C-389 AND AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S POSITION ON THE PROPOSED LAW Bill C-389, An Act to Amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code […]

SUMMARY OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S SUBMISSIONS TO THE UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS Canada underwent its sixth review of its compliance to the International Covenant on Economic, Social […]

SUMMARY OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S SUMISSIONS TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE Canada underwent its sixth review of its compliance to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights before the […]

SUMMARY OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S SUMISSIONS TO THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ON CANADA’S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW Canada underwent its second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council […]

  By: Margaret Huang, Alex Neve, Perseo Quiroz and Béatrice Vaugrante Prime Minister Trudeau is about to host his US and Mexican counterparts, President Obama and President Peña Nieto, at […]

Alex Neve, Amnesty International Canada’s Secetary-General, documents the Mexico Defensoras Delegation’s visit to Ottawa on the eve of the Three Amigos summit. They came with an urgent message for Prime Minister Trudeau, President Peña Nieto […]

By Sara Hashash, Amnesty International’s MENA Press Officer, in Tunis. After the suicide attack on a bus carrying presidential guards in central Tunis last night, life in the capital seemed […]