We must defend life on our planet together
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 […]
299 results for 'water defenders'
The fishing battle is not about lobster – it’s about treaties
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 […]
Open letter urges Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to adopt ‘transformative’ human rights agenda in Throne Speech
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 […]
Anniversary of the Global Adoption of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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, […]
Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – new report
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 […]
Guatemala: Free Indigenous Prisoner of Conscience Bernardo Caal Xol
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. […]
Iran: Leaked official letters reveal state denial of COVID-19 crisis in prisons
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 […]
Climate Justice
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 […]
Canadian government must work urgently within international community to head-off imposition of China’s national security law in Hong Kong
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”: Corporate accountability during COVID-19
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 […]
CAUTION: Activists at work!
If there is one thing that COVID-19 has taught us, it is the power of ingenuity in the face of adversity, and the current work Amnesty International activists are doing […]
El Salvador: International organizations call on president Bukele to respect human rights in response to COVID-19
In light of the measures implemented by president Nayib Bukele to contain the pandemic, including the detention of people in forced confinement for breaching the quarantine, Amnesty International, the Center […]
