Industry, Police, and MMIWG2S in Wet’suwet’en Yintah
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 […]
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On Intersectionality, Access to Justice, and Walking Between Worlds
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 […]
The right to protest is under threat in Mexico
By Erika Guevara-Rosas and Edith Olivares Ferreto A year ago today, police officers repressed 93 people, most of them female students from the Escuela Normal Rural Mactumactzá, who had taken […]
PUERTO RICO: Protect Access to Abortion
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 32/22 BELOW A recently published bill seeks to prohibit abortions after 22 weeks, or when a doctor determines that the foetus is viable, with the […]
Pride 2022 & Supporting LGBTI Rights During Conflict
January 7th marked an important moment for LGBTQ2S rights in Canada when the federal ban on conversion therapy officially came into effect. After years of advocacy from survivors and activists, […]
“They Will Not Stop Us!”: Solidarity with Environmental Rights Defenders
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres was blunt as he spoke at the release of the latest chilling report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on April 4: “Climate […]
Defenders of Land, Territory, Environment and Climate
Humanity is facing an environmental emergency of unprecedented proportions. Climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystems degradation and toxic pollution of air, water and soil are dramatic, interconnected processes that are severely […]
As temperatures rise, our solidarity action with threatened climate protectors is more important then ever
As government delegations at last November’s UN climate change conference debated what action to take to confront our global climate emergency, activists outside projected images of community leaders murdered for […]
Political leaders and corporate titans put profit and power ahead of people, betraying promises for fair recovery from pandemic
Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2021 Peddling false promises of a fair recovery from Covid-19 to address deep-seated inequalities world leaders colluded with corporate titans to hoard power […]
Ethiopia: Tigrayan forces murder, rape and pillage in attacks on civilians in Amhara towns
Fighters affiliated with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed dozens of people, gang-raped dozens of women and girls – some as young as 14 – and looted private […]
Amnesty International Canada Statement on “Freedom Convoy 2022” Blockade
OTTAWA – Amnesty International has been following with great concern the developments relating to the Ottawa protests’ “Freedom Convoy 2022” blockade. “Amnesty International Canada is deeply troubled by the reports […]
Submission to the Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Militarization of Indigenous Lands
Submission to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Poeples
