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Thailand: Confirm safety and whereabouts of three Thai citizens

Following reports that Vietnamese authorities may have transferred three Thai citizens – Chucheep Chiwasut, Siam Theerawut and Kritsana Tupthai –...

Sudan: 10 human rights priorities for the transition

The Sudanese people have been protesting since December 2018 when they took to the streets to express their anger over...

Canada: Amnesty International Urges Federal and Provincial Governments to be Resolute in their Commitment to Reconciliation in the Face of Racist Backlash

Partnership Agreement on Caribou Protection in Northeast BC “When caribou disappear, a piece of our culture disappears and we lose...

Israel: Amnesty International engages in legal action to stop NSO Group’s web of surveillance

Amnesty International is supporting a legal action to take the Israeli Ministry of Defence (MoD) to court, to demand that...

Turkey: ‘Appalling’ violence used against students holding Pride march

Reacting to the news that a Pride march organized by students at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara...

Amnesty International applauds landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling on immigration detention

Amnesty International welcomes today’s landmark decision in Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness v Chhina, finding that the statutory...

China: Transgender people risk their lives with dangerous self-surgery

Transgender people in China are performing highly dangerous surgery on themselves and buying unsafe hormone treatments on the black market...

GAMBIA: 22 death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, a welcome step towards abolition

Responding to the news that Gambia’s President Adama Barrow has commuted the death sentences of 22 prisoners to life imprisonment,...

Op-ed: Is Canada right to tighten its border?

This article was originally published in the Toronto Star. By Justin Mohammed Refugee claimants who cross the Canada-U.S. border irregularly...

Singapore: Chilling fake news law will ‘rule the news feed’

The Singaporean authorities must drop plans to enact a ‘fake news’ law that would dramatically curtail freedom of expression in...

Pakistan: Government of Pakistan must repeal its blasphemy laws

Responding to the reports that Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman freed from death row in 2018, has left Pakistan...

Brazil: Risk of bloodshed in the Amazon unless government protects Indigenous peoples from illegal land seizures and logging

Illegal land seizures and logging on the rise in Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Amazon Recent reductions in government monitoring aggravate...

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