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Belarus: Raman Pratasevich forced televised ‘confession’ amounts to ill-treatment

Following the 3 June broadcast of a forced ‘confession’ by jailed Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern...

Governments must stop conniving with fossil fuel industries to burn our rights

The world’s richest governments are effectively condemning millions of people to starvation, drought and displacement through their continued support of...

Surveillance city: NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn

The NYPD can feed images from 15,280 surveillance cameras in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx into facial recognition software. The...

Hong Kong: People must not be punished for peacefully marking Tiananmen anniversary

The Hong Kong authorities must allow people to peacefully pay their respects to those killed in the Tiananmen crackdown, Amnesty...

Lowering flags is not enough. Indigenous children deserve justice and accountability.

The remains of 215 Indigenous children were found buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in...

Human Rights Advocates and Legal Experts Deliver Blueprint for New International Corporate Accountability Law in Canada

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Ottawa, ON / May 31, 2021—Today the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) releases draft model legislation...

Open letter: Amnesty International calls on Canada to recognize Israel’s illegal occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Ketty Nivyabandi, Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada (English branch), and France-Isabelle Langlois, Directrice générale ofAmnistie internationale Canada francophone, have...

Israel/OPT: Scrap plans to forcibly evict Palestinian families in Silwan

Ahead of an appeal hearing at the Jerusalem District Court on 26 May over the forced eviction of two Palestinian...

Canada: Letter to University of Toronto Faculty of Law and its International Human Rights Law Program (IHRP)

Amnesty International and Amnesty International Canada expresses deep concern about the sequence of events that led to the Faculty of...

Belarus: University students expelled from universities and imprisoned for peaceful protest

Belarusian students are being arrested on criminal charges, prosecuted for peaceful activism and expelled from educational institutions, in retribution for...

Belarus: Journalist apprehended in Minsk airport after emergency landing must be released immediately

Reacting to the news that the Belarusian authorities apprehended Raman Pratasevich, former editor-in-chief of the popular opposition Telegram channel NEXTA,...

Global Health Summit: Leaders must waive intellectual property rights and push pharma companies to share life-saving technology

G20 leaders must waive vaccine patents and other intellectual property restrictions now to save lives 60,000 people dying weekly across...

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