Amnesty International Canada

08/22/2026

The Nigerian authorities must urgently end the bloodshed across the country. In the past week, over 50 people have been reportedly killed in violent attacks by armed groups, with many others injured.

Failure to stop these attacks risks emboldening impunity and putting even more innocent lives at risk.

08/21/2026

Webinar: Grassy Narrows & the Mercury Crisis

Join us on August 25 to hear from guests from the Grassy Narrows First Nation as they describe their community, the health crisis caused by the mercury poisoning & what we can do to support

Join Amnesty International Canada’s Indigenous Rights Team to hear from Grassy Narrows First Nation about the mercury crisis, its impacts and the fight for justice.

08/21/2026

Yet again, the government is prioritizing the profits of Canadian resource-extraction companies over the lives and rights of Indigenous women and girls, both in Canada and abroad

OTTAWA — Critics are accusing Ottawa of prioritizing trade over human rights by signing a free trade deal with Ecuador. International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu and Ecuador's minister of production, foreign trade and investment Luis Alberto Jaramill...

08/21/2026

Amnesty International and the other groups are suing on behalf of a Honduran family whose members sought asylum in Canada last year after learning that the Trump administration had rejected their 2022 asylum claim in Maryland.

Exclusive: How the Canadians view Trump's push for a tough border.

08/21/2026

We call for global solidarity as eastern DRC faces its deadliest Ebola outbreak in the country's history.

Human rights must continue to be prioritized as health workers treat the disease across the region.

08/20/2026

The horrors the Palestinian families in Qusra (Nablus governorate) are living through are not isolated incidents. Instead, they reflect the relentless escalation and expansion of well-documented state-backed Israeli settler violence across the unlawfully occupied West Bank that seeks to displace Palestinians.

Israel must comply with its legal obligation to protect the Palestinian population from violence and ensure their access to human rights.

🔗 amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/israel-opt-siege-palestinian-homes-qusra-escalation-state-backed-settler-violence

08/20/2026

🔥 The US government is breaching international human rights standards by moving ahead with a series of new lithium mines across Nevada without the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of affected Indigenous Peoples.

🪶 An Amnesty International briefing connects the approval of two Canadian-owned lithium mining projects to Indigenous rights violations in Nevada. The research reveals how Indigenous Peoples’ consent was never sought or obtained for these mines, which affect their ancestral lands.

🔗 Read the full report now:
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/nevada-lithium-mining-boom-indigenous-rights-violations

08/20/2026

💥The Taliban have systematically attacked the rights of women and girls over the last five years. Their education, movement, careers and choices have been severely restricted, and their very existence in public spaces have been erased.

📢 Join our global movement to demand the international community to take unified and stronger action to hold the Taliban accountable for the atrocities against women and girls
takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/167045/petition/1

08/19/2026

FreeGrassy: Grassy Narrows Solidarity River Run Rally 2026
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 | 12pm | Toronto

Join Grassy Narrows youth and community members as they travel 1,700km to demand mercury justice.

Details: freegrassy.net/river-run-2026-rsvp/

08/19/2026

Join Grassy Narrows youth and community members as they travel 1,700km to demand mercury justice.

River Run Rally 2026 is 50 days away!

RSVP to march with Grassy Narrows on September 23rd at 12pm in Toronto

https://actionnetwork.org/events/river-run-2026