This year people around the world continued to prove that change is possible. From changing laws to ensuring justice prevails ...

Reacting to news that Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the Death Penalty Abolition Bill into law today, ...

Amnesty International Canada's Write for Rights campaign is proud to feature Yinka Dini, a powerful piece by Satsi Naziel, an ...

Urgent Need to Document Assad Government’s Abuses The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure ...

I hope that the longer the viewer looks at the piece, the more Rocky’s story unravels, revealing the true injustice of ...

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization ...

When an individual is in immediate danger of a human rights violation, Amnesty International mobilizes a dedicated group of letter-writers to take action quickly to protect them. Please take action as ...

Does Canada have the death penalty? As a fully abolitionist country since December 10, 1998, the only Canadians at risk of execution are in foreign countries. Calls to abolish the death penalty in ...

It is time to step up demands for the Chinese government to release human rights defenders detained after attending a social gathering five years ago, ...

Every day, Amnesty International publishes actions that empower you to write letters, send emails and sign petitions on the most pressing human rights issues around the world. Sign and share our ...

Violence against women, and certainly violence against Indigenous women, is rarely understood as a human rights issue. When governments, media and the general public consider violence against women, ...