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Russia: Anti-war political activist and prisoner of conscience Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years in jail

Reacting to news that Vladimir Kara-Murza, a political activist and journalist, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by...

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El Salvador: One year into state of emergency, human rights remain under attack

In El Salvador, a state of emergency has led to a litany of human rights violations such as torture, arbitrary...
A woman wearing a Venezuelan flag over her fleece sweater kneels down to light a Canada at a vigil outside an immigration detention centre in Mexico where a fatal fire took place.

Mexico: Fatal fire in migrant detention centre is result of inhumane policies

The March 28 fire at a northern Mexican detention centre for migrants killed at least 40 people and sent more...
A view down Roxham Road towards the illegal border crossing into Canada in Champlain, New York, July 18, 2018. Andre Malerba for The Washington Post via Getty Images

Why Roxham Road crossing is really a problem

This article was written before the government expanded the Safe Third Country Agreement to apply not just at Roxham Road...

Bangladeshi garment workers and relatives of victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse hold candles during a memorial at the site of the Rana Plaza garment factory building collapse in Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on October 24, 2013, the six-month anniversary of the disaster. Relatives of the 1,135 people who lost their lives when the Rana Plaza complex collapsed on April 24 also said they had still to receive any compensation for their loss as they rallied at the site of the tragedy.

Ten years since Rana Plaza and still no laws to prevent a similar tragedy

On April 24, 2023, we mark the tenth anniversary of the deadliest disaster in the global garment industry. On that...

Amnesty International offices around the world will today deliver petitions signed by more than 200,000 people to Israeli authorities

Over 200,000 people demand an end to Israel’s apartheid

Amnesty International offices around the world will today deliver petitions signed by more than 200,000 people, including over 5000 Canadians,...

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Racial bias in facial recognition algorithms

Facial recognition makes racial discrimination worse. Learn more about how it threatens human rights and take action to ban it....
Five women participating in a panel discussion are seated in front of flat-screen TV showing the Amnesty International logo.

Watch: ‘Mental Health and Us:’ Feb. 1 Panel Discussion for Black History Month 2023

Learn about how Black activists, educators and clinicians are working to reduce stigma around and improve mental health in their...
Riot police hold the rubber bullet guns to disperse during a protest to anti-government in Bangkok on August 11, 2021, in Bangkok, Thailand. (Photo by Vachira Vachira/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

25 rules to protect protesters from misuse of rubber bullets

Amnesty International has devised 25 rules to try and stop human rights abuses being perpetrated through the improper use of rubber bullets...

Two human rights defenders face unjust trial

Two human rights defenders in Indonesia, Fatia Maulidiyanti and Haris Azhar are facing an unjust trial that could land them...

Residents watch as an Israeli bulldozer demolishes a Palestinian house in the Umm Qasas area of Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank on July 25, 2022. (Photo by MOSAB SHAWER / AFP) (Photo by MOSAB SHAWER/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel/OPT: Hyundai CE must end link with war crimes in Masafer Yatta

Hyundai Construction Equipment (Hyundai CE) must take immediate action to prevent its products’ involvement in demolitions in Masafer Yatta, Amnesty...

Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown in Iran

During the brutal crackdown in Iran, intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging,...

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