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Canada: RCMP raid of Wet’suwet’en territory a ‘flagrant attack’ on Indigenous rights

The RCMP’s March 29 raid is the latest act in a “campaign of violence, intimidation and dispossession,” Amnesty International says....
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 woman wearing a white t-shirt and red pants holds a feather while she participates in a march for Indigenous rights on a street in downtown Toronto.

Amnesty International’s 2022/23 Annual Report denounces Canada’s record on Indigenous People’s rights, climate justice

Amnesty International's 2022/23 Annual Report highlights how Canada unfairly criminalizes Indigenous defenders for protecting their lands....
US Army Reserve trucks cross under an overhang at the Canadian border in winter.

Canada: Expanding Safe Third Country Agreement a shameful response to Roxham Road crossings

The decision to expand the Safe Third Country Agreement threatens the rights and safety of people trying to claim refugee...
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,...

Young teenage boy holding a cardboard sign that says "save the planet."

Global warming will exceed 1.5˚C unless fossil fuels phased out faster: IPCC report

Amnesty International supports calls for a binding Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation treaty to avert the worst impacts of global warming....
About 10 riot police in full tactical gear stand on a highway facing protesters situated on a hill.

Peru protests: 100 days later, racist repression and slow investigations continue

Peru's government has responded to the protests with "widespread attacks marked by racist bias," Amnesty International says....
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...

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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