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Shaping the Future of Amnesty International Canada

Amnesty International Canada wants to hear from YOU! We’re currently exploring our national human rights strategies for 2022-2030. We know...

Dashmaawaan Bemaadzinjin

In the summer of 2020, Amnesty International Canada used a photo without permission as part of a series of Covid...

“It’s all from our heart.” In conversation with Bridget Tolley of Families of Sisters in Spirit

Gladys Tolley, the mother of Bridget Tolley from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation in Quebec, was struck and killed by...

No subsidies for enhanced oil production

This week, Amnesty International Canada and 46 other environmental, health and human rights organizations sent a letter opposing the creation of a...

It’s time to recognize the right to a healthy environment

There is no doubt that humanity is facing an environmental crisis of unprecedented proportions. Climate change, biodiversity loss, ecosystems degradation...

Women’s lives have been shattered by COVID-19 – but there’s still plenty to celebrate

International Women’s Day 2021 International Women’s Day should be a time of celebration. It might feel like there’s not much...

Mexico: Authorities used illegal force and sexual violence to silence women protesting against gender-based violence

Mexican authorities repressed women who were peacefully protesting against gender-based violence in 2020, violating their rights to freedom of expression...

Five years after Berta Cáceres was murdered, governments are still failing to protect human rights defenders

Photo Credit: Image of Lenca defender Berta Cáceres by Camila Villota B/Amnesty International By Mary Lawlor, United Nations Special Rapporteur...

Ottawa must disclose how it aided Goldcorp in human rights dispute, Federal Court hears

OTTAWA, ON / March 2, 2021 – Today the Federal Court of Canada hears a case alleging that the Canadian...

Ottawa must disclose how it aided Canadian mining company

Photo Credit: Amnesty International Canada On March 2 the Federal Court of Canada will hear a case alleging that the Canadian...

Write for Rights 2020: You’re already changing lives!

On or around December 10th, International Human Rights Day, Amnesty International supporters around the world take part in our biggest...

The Mauritanian and the renewed push to Close Guantánamo

“I am an example because the government’s suspicion that I was a criminal was totally and one hundred percent wrong....

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