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Indigenous women from Val d’Or, Quebec, a small town located about 500km northwest of Montreal, alleged that officers from the...

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research, Amnesty International , The long-awaited fifth season of Game of Thrones begins on...

By Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research, Amnesty International The long-awaited fifth season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday,...

Supporters “Dance for Rights” to raise awareness for Amnesty’s global letter-writing event Write for Rights This past Saturday on...

By Mustafa Qadri, Amnesty International’s Pakistan Researcher For anyone following the news from Pakistan, the past few weeks have made...

By Adotei Akwei. Johanna Lee contributed to this post. Originally published by AIUSA. In mid-April, Islamist armed group Boko Haram...

Amina Filali committed suicide by swallowing rat poison in March 2012. She was 16 years old. Her desperate act showed...

By Adotei Akwei, Guest Writer – originally published on Amnesty USA Blog. On April 14, 234 school girls between the...

By Jackie Hansen, Major Campaigner and Women’s Rights Campaigner Basic freedoms are under threat in Russia. Restrictive new laws are...

By Val Croft, an Amnesty activist from Toronto with a passionate commitment to human rights in Guatemala. Photo: An Ixil...