Amnesty International today launches the world’s biggest human rights campaign, Write for Rights, calling on governments to put right injustices against individuals who are detained or persecuted in countries across the […]

By Amnesty Americas Media Manager Tuncan Tucker Jessica Silva and her husband Jaime Torres were driving through Delicias, a town in the northern state of Chihuahua, late on 8 September […]

By Jani Silva* My name is Jani Silva and I’m a campesina, or small-scale farmer, from Colombia. I’m 57 years old and I work in the Perla Amazónica Farming Reserve […]

By Ana Nicole Collins and Stacia Loft In February, as demonstrators across the country halted trains and stopped traffic in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en land defenders in northwestern B.C., Prime Minister […]

The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario September 10, 2020 Dear Prime Minister, We write this Open Letter, on behalf of 400,000 supporters […]

National Implementation More Urgent than Ever The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the UN General Assembly 13 years ago, on September 13th, 2007, […]

Widespread torture including beatings, floggings, electric shocks, stress positions, mock executions, waterboarding, sexual violence, forced administration of chemical substances, and deprivation of medical care Hundreds subjected to grossly unfair trials […]

Misuse of the justice system to imprison indigenous environment defenders in Guatemala is an all too common practice designed to silence them and paralyze their vital struggles for human rights. […]

Leaked official documents newly obtained by Amnesty International reveal that the Iranian government has ignored repeated pleas by senior officials responsible for managing Iran’s prisons for additional resources to control the […]

What is climate justice? Climate change is an issue of injustice, similar to how we think about other human rights violations. It is the result of a small group of […]

OTTAWA – The Canadian government must advance consistent and globally-coordinated action to reverse China’s deeply problematic decision to apply its national security laws to Hong Kong. This troubling move poses […]

Cracks in the “Canada Brand”: profit before people creates high-risk conditions for communities made vulnerable by the pandemic  Workers’ concerns ignored at Canadian meat packing plants and hundreds made sick. Amazon […]