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Senegal: Meet the survivor of female genital mutilation who supports other survivors of gender-based violence

Mariame Dabo, 59, lives in Tambacounda, in eastern Senegal. A survivor of female genital mutilation as a child, Mariame works...

International Women’s Day 2025 Canada

On March 8, people around the country will come together to celebrate International Women’s Day 2025 in Canada. It’s an...

Amnesty’s human rights wins of 2024

This year people around the world continued to prove that change is possible. From changing laws to ensuring justice prevails,...

Amnesty International Canada announces 2023/24 Media Awards winners

The Amnesty International Canada Media Awards honour reporting by Canada-based journalists and Canadian journalists reporting abroad....

Reflections on International Women’s Day 2022

As we celebrate the continued accomplishments of women in our communities, heavy on our minds are the enduring challenges for...

Women’s lives have been shattered by COVID-19 – but there’s still plenty to celebrate

International Women’s Day 2021 International Women’s Day should be a time of celebration. It might feel like there’s not much...

From slurs to sexual violence, women human rights defenders come under global attack

Governments are failing to protect women human rights defenders (WHRDs) who routinely face a wide range of gender specific attacks,...

Burkina Faso: Urgent need to protect girls from FGM and forced marriage

48 girls suffered medical complications following female genital mutilation last month More than half of girls marry before their eighteenth...

2016 Amnesty International Media Awards Cover Wide Range of Human Rights Issues

Armoured vehicle sales, forgotten residential school survivors, Bangladeshi climate refugees and Tanzanian girls fleeing FGM are among the human...

Secret Daughter Exposes Gender Discrimination

This month’s Amnesty International Book Club pick, Secret Daughter, is a touching story of three women, worlds apart but entwined...

Secret Daughter Exposes Gender Discrimination

This month’s Amnesty International Book Club pick, Secret Daughter, is a touching story of three women, worlds apart but entwined...

Amplifying women’s voices

By Stella Jegher, Amnesty International Switzerland , This International Women’s Day, we look back 20 years to a historic UN...

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