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Indigenous rights movement in Canada and Alicia Keys honoured with top Amnesty International award

Celebrated global music artist and activist Alicia Keys and the inspirational movement of Indigenous Peoples fighting for their rights in...

Peru: Postponement of ruling on Acuña’s case, new attempt to block her work

The decision of the Peruvian Supreme Court to postpone the ruling on the case against human rights defender Máxima Acuña...

Thailand: Ban on critics shows brazen determination to silence dissent

Responding to a government warning that anyone who follows, contacts, or shares posts online with three prominent critics – historian...

EU: Increased protections for child migrants welcome step amid generally incoherent approach

In response to announcements by the European Commission on priority actions on child migrant’s protection Iverna McGowan, Amnesty International’s Head...

USA/Russia: Diplomatic meeting must tackle deplorable human rights record at home and abroad

Though recent developments in Syria are bound to dominate US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s first official visit to Moscow...

Death Penalty: World’s biggest executioner China must come clean about ‘grotesque’ level of capital punishment

Under strict embargo until 00:01 BST (07.01 HKT/ 23:01 GMT) 11 April 2017 1,032 executions worldwide in 2016, down 37%...

Egypt: Authorities must address sectarian violence, not abuse emergency powers to further curtail rights

Emergency measures included in a declaration of a state of emergency by President Abdelfattah al-Sissi in the aftermath of three...

CANADA: Candidates in BC Election Must Commit to Address Critical Gaps in Human Rights Protection

In an Open Letter, Amnesty International Canada has called on all candidates in British Columbia’s upcoming provincial election to commit...

US airstrikes in Syria: US forces must avoid repeat of civilian casualties

In response to United States airstrikes on a Syrian army airbase in Homs, three days after a chemical weapons attack...

Sudan: Torture of Channel4 journalists highlights need to investigate Darfur chemical attacks

The brutal torture of two journalists who were abducted en route to Jebel Marra, in Sudan’s Darfur region, is not...

US China Summit: Rolling back human rights will unleash a more dangerous world

Any absence of human rights from the agenda of the first meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping,...

Syria: UN Security Council must take decisive action after Idleb chemical attack

Evidence gathered is suggesting a nerve agent was used in an air-launched chemical attack which killed more than 70 and...

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