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Imperfect Justice

by Aubrey Harris, Coordinator, Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty , The recent acquittal of George Zimmerman in Florida has...

Egypt: Sexual assaults on women protestors continuing amid the political turmoil

Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Egypt researcher, blogs from Cairo While the world is focusing on the political fall-out of millions...

Mauritania: This is their view of security?

, , Leila Mint Abdel Aziz’s brother is detained in Guantanamo , By Alex Neve, Secretary General Amnesty International Canada...

Mauritania: This is their view of security?

Leila Mint Abdel Aziz’s brother is detained in Guantanamo By Alex Neve, Secretary General Amnesty International Canada From all the...

African activists fight homophobia

We’re deep in Pride season here in Canada. People are out and loud and proud and celebrating. But in many...

al-Khawaja’s wife speaks about her imprisoned husband

By Khadija al-Mousawi, wife of imprisoned human rights defender ‘Abdulhadi al-Khawaja. It was on a Friday when we gathered in...

Commonwealth values and Sri Lanka

By John Argue, Amnesty International Canada’s Coordinator for Sri Lanka , In November 2013, the next Commonwealth Heads of Government...

Canadian Comes Face to Face with Torture in Mauritania

Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada Nouakchott, Mauritania June 24, 2013 “I came to study Arabic and the Koran....

Looking Back on Human Rights College 2013

By Tharani Thirumalairajan, Youth Intern, Amnesty International Canada, in Ottawa , On June 4th, 2013, Amnesty Canada ran a four...

Looking Back on Human Rights College 2013

By Tharani Thirumalairajan, Youth Intern, Amnesty International Canada, in Ottawa On June 4th, 2013, Amnesty Canada ran a four day...

We can’t compromise on women’s human rights

By Jacqueline Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner This week Canada had the rather unenviable position of chairing negotiations...

This is a Cold War – Amnesty Interviews Katia from Pussy Riot

, ‘This is a Cold War’ , , Pussy riot member Ekaterina (Katia) Samutsevich talks to Amnesty International about her...

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