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Mexico: Land, environment defenders criminalized for exercising right to protest

A new Amnesty International report shines a light on the use of Mexico's criminal justice system to suppress people's right...
Jina Mahsa Amini (c) Amnesty International

What happened to Jina Mahsa Amini?

In September 2022 Jina Mahsa Amini, a young woman from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority, visited Tehran with her brother. She...

A street sign commemorating Mahsa Jina Amini is installed outside the former Embassy of Iran on Metcalfe street in Ottawa, June 2023 (c) private

Mahsa Amini: One year later we still say her name

The death in detention of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini on September 16, 2022, following her violent arrest by Iran’s “morality”...

This 26 October, 2022, dated image posted on Twitter shows an unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way toward Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's hometown in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to mark 40 days since her death. © Private

Iran: One year after the Woman Life Freedom uprising international community must combat impunity for brutal crackdown 

The international community must pursue pathways for justice at the international level to address systemic impunity for Iranian officials responsible...

Grass grows around the remains of a orange brick wall on an overcast day

Canadian mining firm accused of human rights abuses linked to evictions in the DRC

Ivanhoe Mines harmed the human rights of 45 families evicted during the expansion of a vast DRC copper-mining complex, a...
A group of young women hold pictures of victims of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

Chile: 50 years after coup, exercising historical memory remains vital

After the Pinochet coup in Chile, constitutional guarantees were suspended, Congress was dissolved and a state of emergency was declared....
Four workers in an agricultural field pick produce and carry boxes on a bright day.

Canada Foreign-Worker Programs a ‘Breeding Ground’ for Contemporary Forms of Slavery: UN Special Rapporteur

Canada must act to protect people in its temporary foreign-worker programs, the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery...
Ethiopia: Eritrean soldiers committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Tigray after signing of agreement to end hostilities – new report. (c) Amnesty International

Ethiopia: Eritrean soldiers committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Tigray after signing of agreement to end hostilities

The Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity in the Tigray region, immediately before and...

Guards surround a large group of detainees in an internment camp in Xinjiang, China. Illustration ©Molly Crabapple

China: Anniversary of UN’s damning Xinjiang report must be ‘wake-up call’ to action

The one-year anniversary of a damning UN report on Xinjiang stands as a grave reminder of the need to hold...

States must safeguard children’s rights from climate change

“Children are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change,” says Ann Harrison, Amnesty International’s Climate Advisor....
Photo by Maung Sawyeddollah in Cox's Bazar, 2023 Rohingya

Myanmar: Time for Meta to pay reparations to Rohingya for role in ethnic cleansing

Meta should immediately pay reparations to the Rohingya for the role that Facebook played in the ethnic cleansing of the...

A child holds a sign that reads "No More Stolen Sisters" at a rally on a road at night.

Canada: Search the landfills and return Indigenous women’s remains home

Manitoba's refusal to search for the remains of three murdered Indigenous women is ‘indefensible,’ Amnesty International Canada says....
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