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‘Refugees Welcome’ football jersey goes global in FIFA 2021 game

In EA’s FIFA 2021 updated game, the best-selling football jersey from Irish club Bohemian FC has gone global, in partnership...

Civil society groups express shock at lack of Alberta, Quebec ministers at human rights meeting

Civil society groups are outraged and deeply disappointed that the governments of Quebec and Alberta are not participating in the...

Belarus: More than 1,000 people arrested in a single day of peaceful protests amid escalating repression of rights

Responding to the arrest of more than 1,000 people in a single day of peaceful protest in Minsk and other...

Tunisia: Freedom of expression at risk as prosecutions rise

The Tunisian authorities must immediately stop exploiting largely outdated, overly broad and repressive laws to prosecute individuals for exercising their...

USA: President-Elect Joe Biden Must Make Human Rights a Priority

Following reports that Joe Biden will become the 46th president of the United States of America, Amnesty International USA’s Interim...

Pam Palmater, Farzana Doctor among speakers at Amnesty International’s first online human rights conference in Canada

OTTAWA – Amnesty International is pleased to announce that its first-ever online human rights conference in Canada will feature an...

FRANCE: COUNTER-TERROR MEASURES FOLLOWING THE MURDER OF SAMUEL PATY RAISE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS

On 16 October, Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old teacher, was murdered in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Paris region). An 18- year old holding refugee...

Belarus: Authorities unleash mass criminal proceedings against hundreds of peaceful protesters

Responding to news that the Belarusian authorities have started mass criminal proceedings against more than 200 peaceful protesters who were...

Ethiopia: Over 50 ethnic Amhara killed in attack on village by armed group

Amnesty International can reveal that at least 54 people from the Amhara ethnic group were killed in an attack late...

Lebanon: Blow to Migrant Domestic Worker Rights

Reinstate Contract; Amend Labor Law (Beirut, October 30, 2020) – Lebanon’s State Shura Council, the country’s top administrative court, delivered...

India: Counter-terror raids on civil society groups signal escalating crackdown on dissent

The Indian government must immediately halt its intensifying suppression of dissent, said Amnesty International, following a series of raids by...

Armenia/Azerbaijan: First confirmed use of cluster munitions by Armenia ‘cruel and reckless’

Amnesty International has verified the use of banned cluster bombs by Armenia for the first time in the current Nagorno-Karabakh...

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