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March Days of Action in Solidarity with Threatened Water Defenders

Mark your calendars for action in March on behalf of unjustly imprisoned indigenous river defender Bernardo Caal Xol and other...

Refugees Are Part of Our Communities

The Safe Third Country Agreement will be back in court on February 23rd, 2021.  The Federal Court has ruled that...

Anti-Black Racism and Policing: Keep up the Pressure

What’s this all about? Anti-Black racism is prejudice, attitudes, beliefs, stereotyping and discrimination that is directed at people of African...

Have a Heart Day 2021

Have a Heart Day is a child and youth-led reconciliation event that brings together caring Canadians to help ensure First...

#RechargeForRights: Amnesty Canada launches a new campaign to Power a Just Energy Transition

2020 was one of the hottest years on record, making it clearer than ever that governments must quickly decarbonize our...

Update: First Nations Children V. Canada

The first week of January, Amnesty met with its legal counsel to discuss intervening again at the Canadian Human Rights...

#JusticeForBerta Still Urgently Needed on an Important Anniversary

March 2nd marks 5 years since the assassination of beloved indigenous rights and river defender Berta Cáceres in Honduras. The...

Lobby for Refugee Rights

The Safe Third Country Agreement will be back in court early in 2021. The Federal Court has ruled that the...

Launching in April: New campaign to protect Colombian environment defenders

  “We want to raise awareness about the importance of our land, water, trees and all the animals that live...

Crisis and Tactical Round Up: Close Guantanamo and more

New: Close Guantanamo! The incoming administration in the US represents a fresh opportunity to press for closure of the detention...

The Canadian Government has reneged on its commitment to create an independent corporate human rights watchdog. We can’t accept this. 

Three years ago, in January 2018, the government announced that it would create an independent office with the power to...

Celebrate Mexico’s Day of the Dead and make visible the need to protect threatened earth defenders

The end of October is a time of traumatic memories for the Indigenous Rarámuri community of Coloradas de la Virgen...

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