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Canadian Government Reneges on Promise to Create Independent Corporate Human Rights Watchdog

A Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability Press Release Canadian Network on Corporate AccountabilityThe Government of Canada failed today to appoint...

Saudi Arabia: Fresh legal challenge to stop UK Government supplying arms for use in Yemen

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Rights Watch UK will this week join the appeal against the UK’s continuing arms...

Egypt: Crackdown against peaceful critics set to worsen if constitutional amendments are passed

Egypt’s authorities must end their crackdown against critics who oppose amendments to the Egyptian constitution, proposed by members of parliament,...

Libya: Civilian lives must be protected as clashes escalate in Tripoli offensive

Fears of further civilian bloodshed are growing as clashes on the outskirts of Tripoli, between forces from the self-proclaimed Libyan...

Amnesty International releases 2019 Human Rights Agenda for Canada, ahead of federal election

Today, Amnesty International released the organization’s 2019 Human Rights Agenda for Canada and called on all governments in the country...

Global rise of ‘politics of demonization’ shows world has failed to learn lessons from 1994 Rwanda genocide

The dangerous global trend towards hate-filled, divisive politics shows that world leaders have collectively ignored the terrible lessons of the...

Zimbabwe: Attack on 263 Chat website a blatant attempt to muzzle the media

A police raid on the offices of online news site 263 Chat after one of its journalists filmed the removal...

Canada must end torture by forced and coerced sterilization, Amnesty International tells Senate Human Rights Committee

Amnesty International appeared today before the Senate Human Rights Committee to urge government to take immediate steps to address sterilization...

Nordic countries: Survivors of rape unite to end impunity for rapists and break barriers to justice

Despite being among the top ranking countries in the world in terms of gender equality, four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland,...

Brunei Darussalam must immediately halt plans to introduce stonings and other vicious punishments

Responding to the news that Brunei Darussalam has today finalised the implementation of a new Shariah Penal Code that introduces...

Saudi Arabia: Six months after the brutal killing of Jamal Khashoggi, there remains ‘no real signs of justice’

Marking six months since the shocking murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Samah Hadid, Amnesty International’s Middle East Director of...

Kenya: Amnesty International Kenya welcomes High Court judgement on privacy-invasive national ID system

Amnesty International Kenya welcomes the decision by the three-judge bench to uphold the right to privacy of citizens and to...

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