Canada: Ban Israeli Settlment Goods
50 YEARS OF OCCUPATION. 50 years of dispossession. 50 years of forced evictions, demolitions and forcible transfer. 50 years of arbitrary arrests, detention and unfair trials. 50 years of unlawful […]
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Crisis in Guatemala: Why hope must guide us
Last month, Amnesty International Canada’s Tara Scurr and Kathy Price joined a delegation of Amnesty colleagues from Spain, Sweden, Mexico and the United States for a research and solidarity mission […]
Colombia: Government fails to keep civilians safe as new threats go unchallenged
A year on from the signing of the Peace Agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC), other guerrilla and paramilitary groups are wrestling […]
Fear, courage and the perilous struggle for human rights in Honduras
Our driver from Tegucigalpa to La Esperanza needed nerves of steel as he swerved to avoid gaping potholes on a road banked by steep drops to the river below. But […]
Russia: Prisoner transport conditions evoke GULAG era legacy
Prisoners in Russia endure inhumane conditions, often for weeks on end, as they are transported thousands of miles in cramped, windowless trains to corrective colonies in distant parts of the […]
A Meaningful Land Acknowledgement Example
Are you wondering how to acknowledge Indigenous territories at public events and meetings? Our guide will help provide a process for reflection and a meaningful land acknowledgement example. Acknowledging the […]
Iran: Mass hunger strike by political prisoners in protest at inhumane conditions
More than a dozen political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, have gone on hunger strike in protest at the cruel, inhuman and degrading conditions they have been forced to endure […]
“Even when she was beaten in protests, she would join the next day”
By Josef Benedict, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific There is nothing left of Boeung Kak lake in the centre of Cambodia’s capital […]
Defending the land with their lives
By Kathy Price, AI Canada’s Honduras campaigner. Follow Kathy on Twitter @KPriceAmnesty “Admirable, courageous, inspiring”: those were the words we heard over and over again from the Members of Parliament, […]
Take Action for Mount Polley
On August 4th 2014, the tailings dam burst at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley Mine in central British Columbia, releasing a catastrophic 24 million cubic metres of mine waste into Polley Lake, […]
USA-Mexico: Trump’s border crackdown pushes refugees into dangerous limbo
An already dangerous journey for tens of thousands of refugees has become deadlier thanks to President Trump’s Executive Order on border control and immigration as well as entrenched reckless practices […]
Amnesty activism on Earth Day
By: Ishaan Chandok On April 22nd, 2017, a day accompanied with beautiful weather, the group One Fire invited Amnesty activists from the Business & Human Rights/Indigenous Rights Team to join […]
