Are federal party leaders up for debating women’s rights and gender equality?
Because of persistently high levels of gender-based violence, because women are still being sterilized without their consent, because of the gender wage gap and lack of economic security for women […]
Saudi Arabia: Women’s rights reforms must be followed by release of detained activists
Saudi Arabia must follow up on crucial reforms announced today to address women’s rights by ending its persecution of women’s rights defenders and immediately and unconditionally releasing those who are […]
End sex discrimination in the Indian Act now! In conversation with Éloïse Décoste from Quebec Native Women
Quebec Native Women was founded in 1974 to fight sex-based discrimination in the Indian Act. Forty-five years later, this discrimination persists. Amnesty International spoke with Quebec Native Women’s Legal and […]
Canada: National coalition calls for federal leaders’ debate on women’s rights, gender equality
OTTAWA – Today, a coalition of prominent women’s rights and equality-seeking organizations in Canada has called on all federal political party leaders to participate in a national debate on women’s […]
Sex workers stand up against torture and ill-treatment by police in the Dominican Republic
Women engaged in sex work in the Dominican Republic are routinely raped, tortured, and humiliated by police as a form of social control, and as punishment for transgressing social norms […]
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INDIA LAUNCHES ‘TROLL PATROL INDIA’: COUNTRY’S FIRST CROWD-SOURCED DATA ON ONLINE ABUSE AGAINST WOMEN
On 13th May, Amnesty International India launched Troll Patrol India, a project that will engage digital volunteers to analyse abusive tweets aimed at women politicians during the 2019 General Elections of India. […]
Nigeria: Children and women face sexual violence in Borno prisons
An Amnesty International investigation has exposed sexual violence against children and women by security agents and inmates at two high-security prison facilities in Borno State, Nigeria. The harrowing violations took […]
Dominican Republic: Police routinely use rape and commit other forms of torture to punish women sex workers
Police in the Dominican Republic routinely rape, beat, humiliate and verbally abuse women sex workers to exert social control over them and to punish them for transgressing social norms of […]
Croatia: EU complicit in violence and abuse by police against refugees and migrants
European governments are complicit in the systematic, unlawful and frequently violent pushbacks and collective expulsions of thousands of asylum seekers to squalid and unsafe refugee camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina, […]
Iran: Pro-government vigilantes attack women for standing up against forced hijab laws
A series of videos shared on social media in recent weeks have shed light on the daily harassment and violent attacks women in Iran face at the hands of morality […]
Syria: Women must play active role in shaping the country’s future
Syrian women must have an official and active role in shaping the country’s future Amnesty International said today, as it launched a new campaign highlighting the gender-based violations women have […]
Afghanistan: Women will be silent no more
Afghan women must have a say in the future of their country, Amnesty International said today, as the human rights organization unveiled a mural in Kabul celebrating their tremendous achievements. […]