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Don’t Let Down Your Guard: Standing together and speaking out for human rights – Year end message to Amnesty International supporters from Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada There were […]
December 17, 2014
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By Craig Benjamin, Campaigner for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples I’m honoured to have contributed a chapter to a new book examining crucial issues for the human rights of […]
November 22, 2014
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By Craig Benjamin, Campaigner for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples , I’m honoured to have contributed a chapter to a new book examining crucial issues for the human rights […]
November 22, 2014
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By Crystal Giesbrecht, a field worker and activism leader with Amnesty International in Saskatchewan I am extremely grateful to have been part of a fantastic team of activists who travelled […]
October 31, 2014
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By Joanne Mariner, Senior Crisis Response Adviser at Amnesty International , In Bangui’s Nguingo neighbourhood, up the Oubangui river from the city center, people are scared. , “There are rumors […]
October 28, 2014
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By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner There appears to be a rise in homophobia around the world. From Russia and Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, Uganda, and beyond, homosexuality […]
October 16, 2014
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The Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN) is an organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout Canada and […]
October 2, 2014
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By Mabel Au, Director of Amnesty International in Hong Kong. The streets of Hong Kong are hard to recognize these days. The exhilarating energy filling the city’s main roads, crowded […]
October 1, 2014
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Bev Jacobs, a Mohawk lawyer and grandmother from Six Nations, was the lead researcher on Amnesty International’s 2004 Stolen Sisters report. Bev went on to serve as President of the […]
October 1, 2014
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Ellen Gabriel, a Mohawk artist, educator and activist from Kanehsatà:ke, is well known in Canada as a powerful voice for rights of Indigenous peoples. Amnesty International has been honoured to work alongside […]
September 30, 2014
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By Conor Fortune, News Writer at Amnesty International, who recently returned from St Petersburg Ekaterina Khomenko’s throat was slit when a street cleaner found her in a car with the […]
September 18, 2014
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By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada , , The images are haunting. The message shocking. “Am I next?” , , Holly Jarrett, cousin of […]
September 9, 2014
