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✍🏾 You’ve changed lives before — Let’s do it again!
Since 2001, millions of people like you have written letters, signed petitions, and shared messages of solidarity — helping transform the lives of more than 100 people around the globe.
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#W4R25
Since 2001, millions of people like you have written letters, signed petitions, and shared messages of solidarity — helping transform the lives of more than 100 people around the globe.
Register for Write for Rights now: bit.ly/4oewt4h
#W4R25
Keep the spotlight on #Tanzania and call for independent, thorough, prompt and impartial investigations into the human rights violations by security forces during election protests.
December 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Keep the spotlight on #Tanzania and call for independent, thorough, prompt and impartial investigations into the human rights violations by security forces during election protests.
States must prevent the Portuguese-flagged Holger G vessel – which is carrying munition components bound for Israel – from docking at their ports, given the clear risk that its cargo would contribute to the ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Israel/OPT: States must not assist the Holger G’s transportation of explosives to Israel
States must prevent the Portuguese-flagged Holger G vessel – which is carrying munition components bound for Israel – from docking at their ports, given
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December 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
States must prevent the Portuguese-flagged Holger G vessel – which is carrying munition components bound for Israel – from docking at their ports, given the clear risk that its cargo would contribute to the ongoing genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip.
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
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✍️ Sign a petition, change a life.
Join the world's biggest human rights event and write for rights.
Your words have power.
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#W4R2025 #W4R25
Join the world's biggest human rights event and write for rights.
Your words have power.
: amnesty.ca/write-for-rights
#W4R2025 #W4R25
December 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
✍️ Sign a petition, change a life.
Join the world's biggest human rights event and write for rights.
Your words have power.
: amnesty.ca/write-for-rights
#W4R2025 #W4R25
Join the world's biggest human rights event and write for rights.
Your words have power.
: amnesty.ca/write-for-rights
#W4R2025 #W4R25
📣 Call for Submissions – The Matchstick!
The Matchstick, Amnesty Canada’s Arts & Human Rights magazine, is accepting submissions from youth under the age of 25
📅 Deadline: Jan 4 2026
🔗 Visit: thematchstick.org/submissions for all eligibility and submission guidelines
The Matchstick, Amnesty Canada’s Arts & Human Rights magazine, is accepting submissions from youth under the age of 25
📅 Deadline: Jan 4 2026
🔗 Visit: thematchstick.org/submissions for all eligibility and submission guidelines
SUBMISSIONS | The Matchstick
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December 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
📣 Call for Submissions – The Matchstick!
The Matchstick, Amnesty Canada’s Arts & Human Rights magazine, is accepting submissions from youth under the age of 25
📅 Deadline: Jan 4 2026
🔗 Visit: thematchstick.org/submissions for all eligibility and submission guidelines
The Matchstick, Amnesty Canada’s Arts & Human Rights magazine, is accepting submissions from youth under the age of 25
📅 Deadline: Jan 4 2026
🔗 Visit: thematchstick.org/submissions for all eligibility and submission guidelines
Spark is Amnesty International Canada’s monthly guide to activism and human rights in Canada.
From online petitions to events and important days of action, Spark is your resource for igniting change in your classroom or community, across Canada and around the world.
amnesty.ca/spark-newsle...
From online petitions to events and important days of action, Spark is your resource for igniting change in your classroom or community, across Canada and around the world.
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Spark Newsletter December 2025
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.
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December 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Spark is Amnesty International Canada’s monthly guide to activism and human rights in Canada.
From online petitions to events and important days of action, Spark is your resource for igniting change in your classroom or community, across Canada and around the world.
amnesty.ca/spark-newsle...
From online petitions to events and important days of action, Spark is your resource for igniting change in your classroom or community, across Canada and around the world.
amnesty.ca/spark-newsle...
✨ Interested in supporting fair, transparent elections?
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
December 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
✨ Interested in supporting fair, transparent elections?
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
✨ Help shape strong and democratic debate at Amnesty International Canada's Annual General Meeting.
Join the Resolutions Committee and review member submitted resolutions for clarity and alignment.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Join the Resolutions Committee and review member submitted resolutions for clarity and alignment.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
December 19, 2025 at 1:32 PM
✨ Help shape strong and democratic debate at Amnesty International Canada's Annual General Meeting.
Join the Resolutions Committee and review member submitted resolutions for clarity and alignment.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Join the Resolutions Committee and review member submitted resolutions for clarity and alignment.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Governments worldwide must urgently enable Gaza to prepare for the severe winter conditions by pressing Israel to end the blockade on Gaza & lift all restrictions on the entry of life-saving supplies
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/gaza-flood-tragedy-must-mobilize-global-action-to-end-israels-genocide
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/gaza-flood-tragedy-must-mobilize-global-action-to-end-israels-genocide
December 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Governments worldwide must urgently enable Gaza to prepare for the severe winter conditions by pressing Israel to end the blockade on Gaza & lift all restrictions on the entry of life-saving supplies
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/gaza-flood-tragedy-must-mobilize-global-action-to-end-israels-genocide
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/gaza-flood-tragedy-must-mobilize-global-action-to-end-israels-genocide
Rather than addressing the root causes of the toxic drug crisis – an unsafe drug supply, inadequate housing, and chronic underinvestment in community-led care – Bill 6 relies on enforcement, punishment, and removal.
takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/183628/...
takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/183628/...
Repeal Bill 6 and Bill 223 - Stop Criminalizing People Who Use Drugs
Call on the Ontario government to repeal Bill 6 and Bill 223 and invest in community-led harm reduction.
Take Action »
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December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Rather than addressing the root causes of the toxic drug crisis – an unsafe drug supply, inadequate housing, and chronic underinvestment in community-led care – Bill 6 relies on enforcement, punishment, and removal.
takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/183628/...
takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/183628/...
Rather than addressing the root causes of the toxic drug crisis – an unsafe drug supply, inadequate housing, and chronic underinvestment in community-led care – Bill 6 relies on enforcement, punishment, and removal.
amnesty.ca/features/col...
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Colonial Policing in a Drug Crisis: How Bill 6 and Bill 223 Endanger Lives
Bill 6, Ontario’s “Safer Municipalities Act”, is now law. Despite being framed as a public safety measure, its real effect is to deepen a
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December 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Rather than addressing the root causes of the toxic drug crisis – an unsafe drug supply, inadequate housing, and chronic underinvestment in community-led care – Bill 6 relies on enforcement, punishment, and removal.
amnesty.ca/features/col...
amnesty.ca/features/col...
🍁 Ontario has passed Bill 6 and Bill 223 - laws that make the toxic drug crisis even deadlier.
Take action now: Send a letter to Ontario’s government to repeal Bill 6 & Bill 223 and invest in community-led harm reduction.
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ontario-bill-6-and-bill-223-public-safety/
Take action now: Send a letter to Ontario’s government to repeal Bill 6 & Bill 223 and invest in community-led harm reduction.
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ontario-bill-6-and-bill-223-public-safety/
December 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🍁 Ontario has passed Bill 6 and Bill 223 - laws that make the toxic drug crisis even deadlier.
Take action now: Send a letter to Ontario’s government to repeal Bill 6 & Bill 223 and invest in community-led harm reduction.
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ontario-bill-6-and-bill-223-public-safety/
Take action now: Send a letter to Ontario’s government to repeal Bill 6 & Bill 223 and invest in community-led harm reduction.
amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/ontario-bill-6-and-bill-223-public-safety/
The devastation caused by torrential rain in the occupied #Gaza Strip was fueled by Israel’s ongoing restrictions on the entry of critical supplies to repair vital infrastructure.
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"Utterly preventable" Gaza flood tragedy must mobilize global action to end Israel’s genocide
The devastation caused by torrential rain in the occupied Gaza Strip that led to the recent flooding of thousands of tents and makeshift shelters and
amnesty.ca
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The devastation caused by torrential rain in the occupied #Gaza Strip was fueled by Israel’s ongoing restrictions on the entry of critical supplies to repair vital infrastructure.
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We welcome reports that Maryia Kalesnikava and Ales Bialiatski are among those have been freed in Belarus.
But let’s be clear: these releases don’t erase a system that still holds hundreds if not thousands of others languishing behind bars merely for speaking out.
But let’s be clear: these releases don’t erase a system that still holds hundreds if not thousands of others languishing behind bars merely for speaking out.
December 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We welcome reports that Maryia Kalesnikava and Ales Bialiatski are among those have been freed in Belarus.
But let’s be clear: these releases don’t erase a system that still holds hundreds if not thousands of others languishing behind bars merely for speaking out.
But let’s be clear: these releases don’t erase a system that still holds hundreds if not thousands of others languishing behind bars merely for speaking out.
Anti-LGBTQIA+ violence has been concerningly on the rise in the past year throughout Europe, with gender non-conforming and transgender people being disproportionately targeted worldwide.
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amnesty.ca/features/gro...
Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted
Growing transphobia and authoritarianism go hand in hand – they must be resisted Late one summer’s night in 2018, I was walking with a friend through
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December 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Anti-LGBTQIA+ violence has been concerningly on the rise in the past year throughout Europe, with gender non-conforming and transgender people being disproportionately targeted worldwide.
amnesty.ca/features/gro...
amnesty.ca/features/gro...
✨ Interested in supporting fair, transparent elections?
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
December 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
✨ Interested in supporting fair, transparent elections?
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Join Amnesty International Canada's Nominations Committee.
Help review nominations, work with staff and Board representatives, and prepare the Nominations Report.
🔗 Apply now at: hello@amnesty.ca
Despite the Taliban’s well-documented repression of human rights, many states, including Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and Austria, are clamouring to deport Afghans to a country where violations particularly against women, girls and dissenting voices are widespread and systematic
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Afghanistan: Forced returns to Taliban rule must end as latest figures reveal millions unlawfully deported in 2025
All forced returns of refugees and asylum seekers to Afghanistan must immediately end, Amnesty International said, as the latest UN figures revealed that
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December 17, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Despite the Taliban’s well-documented repression of human rights, many states, including Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and Austria, are clamouring to deport Afghans to a country where violations particularly against women, girls and dissenting voices are widespread and systematic
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This verdict is not just about one man; it is the latest step in a systematic crackdown on freedom of expression in Hong Kong: targeting not only protests and political parties, but the very idea that people can – indeed, should – hold power to account.
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Hong Kong: Conviction of Jimmy Lai sounds death knell for press freedom
Responding to today’s conviction of Hong Kong newspaper founder Jimmy Lai on national security charges, Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah
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December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This verdict is not just about one man; it is the latest step in a systematic crackdown on freedom of expression in Hong Kong: targeting not only protests and political parties, but the very idea that people can – indeed, should – hold power to account.
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States must demonstrate their commitment to international justice to ensure genuine accountability for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for all those in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and in Israel.
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Sustainable peace requires international justice for all victims of all crimes in Israel and the OPT
States must demonstrate their commitment to international justice to ensure genuine accountability for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and
amnesty.ca
December 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
States must demonstrate their commitment to international justice to ensure genuine accountability for victims of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide for all those in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and in Israel.
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Amnesty Intl. has been extensively documenting violations of human rights in Israel & the OPT.
We've documented how Israel has committed & is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & how its ongoing system of apartheid amounts to crimes against humanity
We've documented how Israel has committed & is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & how its ongoing system of apartheid amounts to crimes against humanity
December 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Amnesty Intl. has been extensively documenting violations of human rights in Israel & the OPT.
We've documented how Israel has committed & is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & how its ongoing system of apartheid amounts to crimes against humanity
We've documented how Israel has committed & is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza & how its ongoing system of apartheid amounts to crimes against humanity
In the decades since the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, our global movement has been helping people across the world enjoy their fundamental rights.
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
In the decades since the adoption of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, our global movement has been helping people across the world enjoy their fundamental rights.
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"I would like all Canadians to reflect on what they can do to be part of upholding and advancing universal human rights... Silence is not an option." — @alexneve.bsky.social, former secretary general of @amnesty.ca, tonight at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan #HumanRightsDay
December 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"I would like all Canadians to reflect on what they can do to be part of upholding and advancing universal human rights... Silence is not an option." — @alexneve.bsky.social, former secretary general of @amnesty.ca, tonight at 8pm with @jeyantvo.bsky.social | Producer: Preeti Bhuyan #HumanRightsDay
Reposted by Amnesty Canada
It’s Human Rights Day!!
You can still take action for our Write For Rights writeathon! See writeathon.ca for information on the cases and ways you can take action!
@amnesty.ca
You can still take action for our Write For Rights writeathon! See writeathon.ca for information on the cases and ways you can take action!
@amnesty.ca
Your words are powerful!
YouTube video by Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand
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December 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
It’s Human Rights Day!!
You can still take action for our Write For Rights writeathon! See writeathon.ca for information on the cases and ways you can take action!
@amnesty.ca
You can still take action for our Write For Rights writeathon! See writeathon.ca for information on the cases and ways you can take action!
@amnesty.ca
Reposted by Amnesty Canada
Today is #humanrightsday2025. And as @amnesty.ca puts it, the “ #climateemergency is a human rights crisis of unprecedented proportions. Climate change threatens the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of present and future generations” amnesty.ca/features/mak...
Making climate justice action accessible: Amnesty’s "Stop Paving Over Our Rights" comic
Amnesty International Canada has published a new comic book that makes the connections between transportation, climate, and human rights easy to
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December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today is #humanrightsday2025. And as @amnesty.ca puts it, the “ #climateemergency is a human rights crisis of unprecedented proportions. Climate change threatens the enjoyment of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of present and future generations” amnesty.ca/features/mak...
People across Canada, including Amnesty International Canada’s student groups and community groups, are coming together to support the individuals and communities whose rights have been violated around the world and are featured in the Write for Rights campaign.
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Write for Rights: Thousands across Canada Join Amnesty International’s Annual Letter-Writing Campaign
Against a backdrop of the spread of authoritarian practices, climate collapse and the erosion of international law, Amnesty International is launching its
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December 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
People across Canada, including Amnesty International Canada’s student groups and community groups, are coming together to support the individuals and communities whose rights have been violated around the world and are featured in the Write for Rights campaign.
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
amnesty.ca/human-rights...
This International Human Rights Day, join Write for Rights, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others:
Your words have power.
: amnesty.ca/write-for-rights
#W4R2025 #W4R25
Your words have power.
: amnesty.ca/write-for-rights
#W4R2025 #W4R25
December 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This International Human Rights Day, join Write for Rights, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others:
Your words have power.
: amnesty.ca/write-for-rights
#W4R2025 #W4R25
Your words have power.
: amnesty.ca/write-for-rights
#W4R2025 #W4R25