The death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini (whose Kurdish name is Zhina) on 16 September 2022, days after she was violently arrested by Iran’s “morality” police amid credible reports […]

Council must mandate an independent international mechanism to investigate crimes People who recently fled Xinjiang tell Amnesty International of abuses they suffered Free Xinjiang Detainees campaign now profiles 126 women and […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 5/22 UODATE 1 BELOW Iranian LGBTI rights defender Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and another woman, Elham Choubdar, were sentenced to death for “corruption on earth”. The women […]

The Amnesty International Media Award winners will be celebrated at an Oct. 12 virtual ceremony hosted by How She Hustles’s Emily Mills.

The first report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan must serve as a wakeup call to the international community on the urgent need […]

The upcoming five-year anniversary of the Rohingya crisis must mark a turning point in the urgent quest to deliver justice to the victims and hold those responsible to account, Amnesty […]

“Naan, kor, azadi!” Bread, work, freedom! This was the chant heard on the streets of Kabul by the many brave women this past weekend, who marched in the name of […]

The right to protest is under unprecedented and growing threat across all regions of the world, Amnesty International said today, as the organization launched a new global campaign to confront […]

We’ve reached the midway point of 2022 and, as ever, it’s been a busy year for Amnesty International. With the world facing human rights challenges on so many fronts, one […]

Rachel Wuttunee is Anishinaabekwe from Kitchenuhmaykoosib in Northwestern Ontario and is from the Bear Clan. Rachel has been an Indigenous and human rights activist for 20 years and holds a […]

Jennifer Wickham is a member of Cas Yikh (Grizzly Bear House) in the Gidimt’en (Bear/Wolf) Clan of the Wet’suwet’en people. She currently lives in Gidimt’en yintah in what is now […]

Benjamin Vandorpe (they/them) is a Two Sprit, trans, queer Inuk based in Odawa and is the founder of the non-profit organization, JusticeTrans, whose mission is to improve access to justice […]