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Take action to support defenders of justice under attack in Central America

Canadians acted with concerned solidarity and welcomed tens of thousands of refugees from Central America during decades of armed conflict...

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Myanmar: Time for Meta to pay reparations to Rohingya for role in ethnic cleansing

Meta should immediately pay reparations to the Rohingya for the role that Facebook played in the ethnic cleansing of the...

Compilation of images of gravesites of those killed during Iran’s Women Life Freedom uprising in the fall of 2022. Photo credit: Amnesty International

Iran: Respect families’ right to commemorate loved ones killed during Woman Life Freedom uprising without reprisals on one-year anniversary 

The families of those unlawfully killed by Iran’s security forces during the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising in 2022 must be...

A woman stands at "the View at Palm" overlooking the Palm Jumeirah in the Gulf emirate of Dubai on January 10, 2022. (Photo by Giuseppe CACACE / AFP by Getty Images)

Troubling Human Rights Record of the United Arab Emirates ahead of COP28

This year, the state host for the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate...

The head and shoulders of a woman with dark brown hair, black-rim glasses, wearing a black blazer over a red blouse.

Honduras: Castro government emulates human rights suspensions in El Salvador

Amnesty International is calling on Honduras to protect human rights in response an ongoing rise in murders in the country....
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Venezuela: Detainee, Emirlendris Benítez’s health & integrity at risk

Emirlendris Benítez is a 42-year-old mother and tradeswoman who in August 2018 was arbitrarily detained and subjected to torture in...

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Companies must act now to ensure responsible development of artificial intelligence

There is a brutal double irony at play when over 350 artificial intelligence professionals proclaim that “Mitigating the risk of...

Toronto Solidarity Protest against Uganda’s ‘Anti-Homosexuality Bill’ March 2023. Photo by: Brayo Bryans v

Anti-2SLGBTQIA+ Hate in Canada Must End

An earlier version of this article erroneously reported Norfolk County voted to exclude pride and other non-civic flags from being...

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Venezuela: Detained woman needs urgent health care

Emirlendris Benítez is a 42-year-old mother, sister, and tradeswoman who in August 2018 was arbitrarily detained for political reasons and...

Kamile Wayit pictured on the beach wearing a white t-shirt and black pants with arms wide open.

China: Uyghur student detained for posting protest videos

Kamile Wayit, a Uyghur student studying in Henan, was taken away by the police on 12 December 2022, after she...

A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Turkey in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic's 'morality police.' (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)

Protect the Protest in Iran: the legacy of Mahsa Amini

The death in custody of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran’s “morality” police in September 2022 sparked a nationwide...

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Racial bias in facial recognition algorithms

Facial recognition makes racial discrimination worse. Learn more about how it threatens human rights and take action to ban it....
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