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Iran: At least 82 Baluchi protesters and bystanders killed in bloody crackdown 

Iranian security forces unlawfully killed at least 66 people, including children, and injured hundreds of others after firing live ammunition,...

Canada: Construction of pipeline on Indigenous territory endangers land defenders

Land defenders are at risk of serious human rights violations as the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline has reportedly...

Afghanistan: Kabul blasts signal utter failure of Taliban to protect minorities

Responding to the reports of a suicide bomb attack that has left dozens dead and many more injured at an...

National Day of Truth and Reconciliation: September 30, 2022

On this date, the second annual National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, we join you in remembering the past and...

Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations

Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military...

Iran: “Protester killings must be urgently investigated by international accountability mechanism” says Amnesty chief

Amnesty International’s ongoing investigations into the crackdown on popular protests in Iran has revealed widespread patterns of unlawful use of...

Russia/Ukraine: Illegitimate results of sham ‘referenda’ must not enable illegal annexation of occupied areas

Responding to Russia’s announcement of the “results” of the so-called “referenda” in the Ukrainian territories it occupies in the Donetsk,...

Amnesty International Canada decries anti-Black racism in federal public service in letter to UN Special Rapporteur

Amnesty International Canada (English-Speaking) announced its support for the Black Class Action Secretariat’s complaint to the United Nations....

Mexico: State must guarantee truth, justice, and remembrance for families of Ayotzinapa students

September 28, 2022 The investigations must keep the families of the disappeared students as their central focus in the interests...

Russia: Activist allegedly beaten and raped for reciting anti-war poem online

Reacting to the news that Russian poet and activist Artyom Kamardin was detained and subjected to torture, including gruesome sexual...

Russia/Ukraine: So-called referenda in the occupied territories are in blatant breach of international law 

Reacting to news that “voting” has begun in the Russian-occupied areas of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions in...

Iran: World must take meaningful action against bloody crackdown as death toll rises

The bravery of protesters facing a spiralling deadly response by the Iranian security forces over the past days after the...

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