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These fierce women show us why we still need International Women’s Day

It’s been more than 40 years since the UN chose 8 March as the day to celebrate the power and...

Five wins for women’s rights

The rights of women and girls are at the heart of what we do. Here are some recent wins we’ve...

Five wins for women’s rights

The rights of women and girls are at the heart of what we do. Here are some recent wins we’ve...

Amnesty International concerned about accounts of violence and abuse of Indigenous women at labour camps in northern Manitoba

January, 28, 2019 (Ottawa): First Nations advocates and leaders in northern Manitoba have shared very concerning accounts of violence and...

Nepal: Authorities must proactively act to eradicate the harmful practice of banishing women and girls to huts during their menstrual cycles

Responding to the death in Bajura district, Nepal, of a woman and her two young sons who had been forced...

Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women

Amnesty International and Element AI release largest ever study into online abuse against women One in ten tweets mentioning black...

Urgent Action Needed to Ensure Indigenous Women Are Not Sterilized Without Their Consent

English PDF     French PDF Sign our online petition to #DefendConsent (December 10, 2018) Across Canada and as recently as 2017,...

Oppressive, sexist policies galvanize bold fight for women’s rights in 2018

Amnesty publishes review of human rights in 2018 Women activists around the world have been at the forefront of the...

Women human rights defenders: Challenging power

Women human rights defenders experience harassment and violence because of what they’re advocating for and because of their gender. People...

Women across Europe failed by outdated rape legislation

Most European countries still do not recognize in law that sex without consent is rape, Amnesty International said on the...

Indigenous women in Canada continue to be coercively or forcibly sterilized

TAKE ACTION to end sterilizations without consent Canadian and international media are reporting on the ongoing practice of coerced of...

Cameroon: Next government must tackle human rights crises in violence-hit regions

Presidential election in Cameroon on Sunday 7 October 123 civilians killed by Boko Haram so far this year in Far...

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