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Are federal party leaders up for debating women’s rights and gender equality?

Because of persistently high levels of gender-based violence, because women are still being sterilized without their consent, because of the...

Saudi Arabia: Women’s rights reforms must be followed by release of detained activists

Saudi Arabia must follow up on crucial reforms announced today to address women’s rights by ending its persecution of women’s...

End sex discrimination in the Indian Act now! In conversation with Éloïse Décoste from Quebec Native Women

Quebec Native Women was founded in 1974 to fight sex-based discrimination in the Indian Act. Forty-five years later, this discrimination...

Canada: National coalition calls for federal leaders’ debate on women’s rights, gender equality

OTTAWA – Today, a coalition of prominent women’s rights and equality-seeking organizations in Canada has called on all federal political...

Sex workers stand up against torture and ill-treatment by police in the Dominican Republic

Women engaged in sex work in the Dominican Republic are routinely raped, tortured, and humiliated by police as a form...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INDIA LAUNCHES ‘TROLL PATROL INDIA’: COUNTRY’S FIRST CROWD-SOURCED DATA ON ONLINE ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN

On 13th May, Amnesty International India launched Troll Patrol India, a project that will engage digital volunteers to analyse abusive...

Nigeria: Children and women face sexual violence in Borno prisons

An Amnesty International investigation has exposed sexual violence against children and women by security agents and inmates at two high-security...

Dominican Republic: Police routinely use rape and commit other forms of torture to punish women sex workers

Police in the Dominican Republic routinely rape, beat, humiliate and verbally abuse women sex workers to exert social control over...

Croatia: EU complicit in violence and abuse by police against refugees and migrants

European governments are complicit in the systematic, unlawful and frequently violent pushbacks and collective expulsions of thousands of asylum seekers...

Iran: Pro-government vigilantes attack women for standing up against forced hijab laws

A series of videos shared on social media in recent weeks have shed light on the daily harassment and violent...

A man sits with head in hands crying on the rubble of his town in Syria

Syria: Women must play active role in shaping the country’s future

Syrian women must have an official and active role in shaping the country’s future Amnesty International said today, as it...

Afghanistan: Women will be silent no more

Afghan women must have a say in the future of their country, Amnesty International said today, as the human rights...

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