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Choose your issue and activities
What human rights issues do you want to work on the most? Violations in a particular country or region of the world? Protecting children? Stopping torture?
Tour the links below and choose the issues where you really want to make a difference.
Take into account your personal interests. Think about opportunities you have to involve other people - friends and fellow students, members of your reading group, or faith community, or other members of your profession.
>> Choose from Amnesty Canada's current priority actions.
>> Defend the human right of women.
>> Protect human rights activists in other countries.
>> Take action in response to human rights emergencies.
>> Take action on the human rights of children.
>> Defend the human rights of Indigenous Peoples.
>> Protect refugees - people seeking refuge from harm.
