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Iran: Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s health at risk

Iranian authorities have been subjecting arbitrarily detained human rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi to torture...

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Pakistan: Stop deporting Afghan refugees

On October 3, 2023, the Pakistani government announced its decision to deport unregistered Afghan refugees back to danger in Afghanistan...

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Canada extols its human rights record at United Nations while criminalizing Indigenous land defenders at home

A delegation from Amnesty International Canada attended Canada’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) at the United Nations in Geneva on Friday....
Smoke plumes billow from a fire at a lumber warehouse in southern Khartoum, Sudan, amidst ongoing fighting on June 7, 2023. © AFP via Getty Images

Sudan: Civilians still being killed and displaced after six months of conflict

As the escalation in the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in Sudan reaches...

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi must be released immediately and unconditionally 

Reacting to the news that unjustly imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,...

An image of Mahsa Amini is project during the press conference for the launch of Amnesty International’s Annual Report in Paris March 27, 2023. © christophemeireis.com

Crisis and Tactical Round Up Fall 2023: Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan and more

Solidarity with Women and Girls in Iran and Afghanistan, Protect Civilians in Sudan and Ethiopia, Ban the Scan and more...

Smoke plumes billow from a fire at a lumber warehouse in southern Khartoum, Sudan.

Sudan: War crimes rampant as civilians killed in both deliberate and indiscriminate attacks

Extensive war crimes are being committed in Sudan as the conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed...

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Argentina: Woman disappeared amid possible femicide

28-year -old woman, Cecilia Strzyzowski has been missing since June 1. She was last seen with her husband, César Sena,...

Honouring National Indigenous History Month 2023

Celebrate Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ land and water defenders during National Indigenous History Month 2023....
A UN peacekeeper stands guard as crowds of children and villagers gather to welcome Steven Koutsis (unseen), the United States' top envoy in Sudan, in the war-torn town of Golo in the thickly forested mountainous area of Jebel Marra in central Darfur on June 19, 2017.

Sudan: New conflict escalation exacerbates 20 years of suffering for civilians in Darfur

As the escalation in violence between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) spreads throughout Sudan,...

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Iran: Millions of schoolgirls at risk of poisoning

The rights to education, health and life of millions of schoolgirls are at risk amid ongoing chemical gas attacks deliberately...

Protesters light flares in the colors of Afghanistan. Members of the local Afghan diaspora, activists and local supporters seen in front of the Alberta Legislature Building during the STOP KILLING AFGHANS! protest organised today by the Global Movement of Peace for Afghanistan. Saturday, August 28, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Taliban’s relentless attack on human rights in Afghanistan

Since returning to de-facto power in August 2021, the Taliban’s relentless attack on human rights has targeted critics, ethnic and...

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