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A force I cannot describe

, by Alex Neve, Secretary General, and Tara Scurr, Business and Human Rights Campaigner , Amnesty International Canada ,...

A time to grieve and a time to dance

By Conor Fortune, News Writer at Amnesty International, who recently returned from St Petersburg Ekaterina Khomenko’s throat was slit when...

What happened to the Nigerian schoolgirls?

By Jacqueline Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner The disappearance of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls in April 2014...

Frequently asked questions about violence against Indigenous women

How many Indigenous women and girls have gone missing in Canada? The best available data, an RCMP report released earlier...

Why is a national public inquiry on missing and murdered Indigenous women needed?

By Craig Benjamin, Campaigner for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples Ten years ago, when Amnesty International released its first...

Secret detention in Syria: “We could hear the screams of torture victims”

By Shappal Ibrahim, a Syrian Kurdish rights activist. When Shappal Ibrahim, a peaceful activist with the Union of Young Kurds,...

Turning the tide on torture in the Philippines one arrest at a time

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Torture is endemic in the Philippines. Police officers in the Philippines...

The Philippines’ dirty, open secret

By Hazel Galang-Folli, Amnesty International’s Expert on the Philippines Although it is talked about little, torture is the Phillipines’ dirty,...

Am I next?

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International Canada , , The images are haunting. The message...

The struggle against torture: “Don’t let down your guard”

by Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada (English branch) – September 8, 2014, from Guadalajara, Mexico UPDATE: Ángel Colon...

“Don’t they know that winter is coming?” Frustration and fear among Iraq’s displaced

by By James Lynch, Refugee and Migrants’ Rights researcher, in northern Iraq. Everywhere in northern Iraq thousands of people driven...

beautiful white sand beach with dark foreground illustrating the dark side of torture in Mexico

Seven things you need to know about torture in Mexico

Travel guides describe Mexico as one of the world’s great civilisations, whose landscapes are as stunning as they are diverse....

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