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Canada’s exclusion of sex workers from COVID-19 emergency income supports is shameful and violates human rights

Within weeks of lockdown measures shuttering businesses across Canada, the federal government announced broad-reaching emergency income supports. But three months...

Egypt: Human rights activist arrested outside Public Prosecutor’s office

Egyptian security forces today whisked away human rights activist and former prisoner of conscience Sanaa Seif from outside the Public...

USA: End unlawful police violence against Black Lives Matter protests

Amnesty International identifies and maps out police violence nationwide since 26 May Almost 500 videos and photographs of incidents analyzed...

Sixties Scoop Network launches innovative mapping project for 60s Scoop survivors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sixties Scoop Network launches innovative mapping project for 60s Scoop survivors (Ottawa/Unceded Algonquin Territory – June...

‘No Clean-Up, No Justice’: Shell’s oil pollution in the Niger Delta

Lagos/London/Brussels/Amsterdam, 18 June 2020 – Nearly 10 years after a clean-up was urged for areas polluted by Shell and other...

Canada Must Urgently Intervene on Behalf of Yasser Albaz

Amnesty International is calling on Canada to urgently intervene to secure the release from prison of Yasser Albaz, a Canadian...

Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway contact tracing apps among most dangerous for privacy

Analysis of coronavirus apps in Europe, Middle East and North Africa finds major risks for human rights Bahrain, Kuwait and...

Amnesty International open letter urges federal government to address anti-Black racism

Right Honourable Justin Trudeau Prime Minister of Canada 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2 Honourable Bardish Chagger Minister of...

China: Zoom must not become a tool in state-sponsored censorship

Responding to Zoom’s compliance with a Chinese government request to end meetings related to the Tiananmen crackdown and suspend the...

Maxwell Simões Corrêa’s arrest is an important step in the investigations, but Amnesty International demands answers about who ordered Marielle’s killing and why

Rio de Janeiro 10.06.2020 – Today, the Civil Police of Rio de Janeiro State executed a series of search and...

Toxic trade in tear gas fuels police abuses globally

Amnesty International launches interactive website documenting security forces’ misuse of tear gas New analysis of almost 80 events in 22...

As global protests continue, facial recognition technology must be banned

As protests in the wake of George Floyd’s killing spur a ripple effect of change around the country, and around...

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