#ActNow to help put pressure on Canada during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign
Take ACTION to help us make an IMPACT during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Campaign in November-December! Amnesty International Canada has long been campaigning alongside organizations like […]
Violence and resource development – lessons from a new Manitoba cumulative impacts study
by Craig Benjamin and Jackie Hansen A new report describes the devastating impact that decades of hydroelectric development have had for First Nations in north-eastern Manitoba, including allegations of sexual […]
Violence and resource development – lessons from a new Manitoba cumulative impacts study
by Craig Benjamin and Jackie Hansen A new report describes the devastating impact that decades of hydroelectric development have had for First Nations in north-eastern Manitoba, including allegations of sexual […]
Four Years On: Yezidi Women’s Struggles Continue
By Tamara Moussa Beirut, Lebanon. On December 10, 2017, Iraq declared its victory over the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS), which had been attempting to establish a so-called Islamic Caliphate in […]
Four Years On: Yezidi Women’s Struggles Continue
By Tamara Moussa Beirut, Lebanon. On December 10, 2017, Iraq declared its victory over the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS), which had been attempting to establish a so-called Islamic Caliphate in […]
Malaysia: End discrimination and backlash against LGBTI people
Amnesty International is deeply concerned by recent backlash against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people in Malaysia by several politicians, including the Minister of Religious Affairs, as well […]
Atrocities against the Rohingya: How we built the case to implicate Myanmar military officials in crimes against humanity
What is this report about? Early in the morning on 25 August 2017, a Rohingya armed group known as the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) launched coordinated attacks on security […]
Myanmar: Military top brass must face justice for crimes against humanity targeting Rohingya
Myanmar: Military top brass must face justice for crimes against humanity targeting Rohingya Report names 13 officials with a key role in murder, rape and deportation of Rohingya Myanmar’s security […]
Libya: Women human rights defenders still under attack four years after activist’s assassination
The Libyan authorities must do more to protect women human rights defenders in the country and investigate the repeated violent attacks against them, Amnesty International said today, four years after […]
Indonesia: State officials complicit in attacks against Ahmadiyya religious minority
State officials were complicit in recent mob attacks against the Ahmadiyya religious minority in East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, that left six homes destroyed and forced dozens to flee their […]
Nigeria: Starving women raped by soldiers and militia who claim to be rescuing them
Displaced women confined to remote camps forced to become “girlfriends” of military in exchange for humanitarian assistance Thousands have died of starvation due to lack of food in the camps […]
Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in camps
Report reveals collective punishment of women and children for being related, however distantly, to men linked to IS or fleeing IS strongholds Women and children in camps across Iraq deprived […]