Take Action around Earth Day for environment defenders under attack
Earth Day is April 22 and the week around it is a time for community celebrations and events focusing on pressing environmental issues facing our world. One of those issues […]
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Crucial Moment to Support Human Rights Defenders and Justice for Berta in Honduras
More than 59,000 supporters of Amnesty Canada have raised their voices to demand justice in Honduras since beloved Indigenous rights defender Berta Caceres was gunned down in her home on March 2, […]
Crucial Moment to Support Human Rights Defenders and Justice for Berta in Honduras
More than 59,000 supporters of Amnesty Canada have raised their voices to demand justice in Honduras since beloved Indigenous rights defender Berta Caceres was gunned down in her home on March 2, […]
Show solidarity with land defenders in Guatemala
Photo: Solidarity image, with members of CCDA. Attacks on defenders in Guatemala are rapidly escalating. In four short weeks seven human rights defenders have been killed. Three men from the Campesino Committee of […]
Stop the killings of land defenders in Guatemala!
Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the safety of land defenders in Guatemala. Six defenders were brutally killed during the last two weeks of May and 12 defenders have lost […]
Stop the killings of land defenders in Guatemala!
Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the safety of land defenders in Guatemala. Six defenders were brutally killed during the last two weeks of May and 12 defenders have lost […]
Iran: New evidence of appalling treatment of women human rights defenders held in Shahr-e Rey prison
Two women human rights defenders jailed for defending women’s rights and opposing the death penalty are being subjected to escalating ill-treatment in Shahr-e Rey prison, a former industrial chicken farm […]
Show your support for Berta and the defenders of COPINH in Honduras
This month, the land and water defenders of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), have requested visible support from around the world. Why now? This month marks […]
The resisters: women human rights defenders
Women human rights defenders. Whether we’re defending the rights of women, girls and LGBTI folks, or advocating for land and environment, we’re more likely to be marginalized by government and […]
Escalating and relentless attacks on human rights defenders, an assault on us all
At Amnesty International, #WeDefend the rights of human rights defenders. Join us. By Guadalupe Marengo, Head of Global Human Rights Defenders Programme, Amnesty International During the last few weeks, we have […]
Guatemala: Indigenous Water Defender Lolita Chavez and Colleagues in Danger
Maya-K’iche human rights defender Lolita Chavez is known to Canadians for her determined and principled stance on the right of Indigenous peoples to determine what happens in their territories. Lolita […]
Why we need to defend the defenders – now, more than ever
By Guadalupe Marengo, Head of Global Human Rights Defenders Programme, Amnesty International Recent attacks on human rights defenders across the world show the urgent need for Amnesty’s new campaign to defend […]