Leqaa Kordia is a 33-year-old Muslim Palestinian woman and a U.S. resident. U.S. immigration authorities have detained her ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown following the January 2026 uprising. After repeatedly threatening ...

A call to action from the Specialized Team for the Rights of Indigenous People Eight years after the Canadian Government made ...

Ugandan opposition politician and former presidential candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change, Dr. Kizza Besigye, has ...

Prominent Egyptian activist and former spokesperson for the April 6 Youth Movement, Mohamed Adel, has been on a hunger strike since December 7, 2025, to ...

Imprisoned activists Chow Hang-tung, Jimmy Lai and Owen Chow are among many people detained in Hong Kong who have been held ...

Billy Kearse, a 53-year-old Black man, is scheduled to be executed in Florida, USA, on March 3, 2026. He was convicted and sentenced to death for the ...

On February 9, 2026, authorities filed criminal charges against Géza Buzás-Hábel, a human rights defender and organiser of the 2025 Pécs Pride. The ...

In 2025, Amnesty International issued 230 Urgent Actions responding to serious and imminent human rights violations around the world. These actions ...

Amnesty's Spark newsletter is your guide to activism in Canada. Read for updates on our campaigns and find out how you can take action.

In 2022, the global Amnesty movement adopted a new strategic framework for 2022–2030. At its heart is a simple but bold idea: people power. People power ...

Amnesty International submits this document ahead of the Human Rights Committee’s review of Canada’s seventh periodic report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.