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

By Jackie Hansen and Craig Benjamin Last week, the National Roundtable on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls brought...

As Nigerians prepare to go to the polling stations to elect their President on March 28, we take a look...

By Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Program The streets are empty....

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Events being reported in the Canadian media have launched a national...

By Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher at Amnesty International “Nearly every woman in Afghanistan has a painful story to tell,” says...

By Craig Benjamin, Campaigner for the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples Ten years ago, when Amnesty International released its first...

When Amnesty launched My Body My Rights, our global campaign on sexual and reproductive rights, earlier this year, we were...

Susanna Flood, Amnesty International’s Director of Media, blogs from Bangui , There is hatred in their eyes as they spit...

Susanna Flood, Amnesty International’s Director of Media, blogs from Bangui There is hatred in their eyes as they spit their...

By Manar Idriss, Sudan researcher at Amnesty International After spending more than a week this November in eastern Chad, interviewing...

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigns and Women’s Rights Campaigner Since 1991, women’s rights activists from around the world have come...