Ontario Minister of Natural Resources David Orazietti has announced that – for at least one year – the province will not license new logging on the traditional territory of the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario. The Minister’s statement follows the latest...

“Everything around us was disappearing… The clean water, our way of life, our traditions, even the wild rice picking and blueberry picking were all disappearing” – Judy DaSilva, Grassy Narrows First Nation on the impact of clearcut logging on their traditional lands The province of...

Ten years ago, on 2 December 2002, young people from the Grassy Narrows First Nation in northwestern Ontario went out onto a road leading past their reserve and stopped the logging tracks carrying away trees cut on their traditional territory. Community member Judy DaSilva says of the blockade,...

Celebrate Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ land and water defenders during National Indigenous History Month 2023.

Amnesty International's 2022/23 Annual Report highlights how Canada unfairly criminalizes Indigenous defenders for protecting their lands.

Ottawa is facing new calls to stop violating Indigenous rights as UN Special Rapporteur Francisco Calí Tzay kicks off his visit to Canada.

Amnesty International has added its voice to a community-led campaign calling on the Federal government to decontaminate a waste disposal site in the Mohawk community of Kanehstatà:ke, just an hour’s drive from Montreal.

Last December during Write for Rights, the world’s biggest human rights event, Amnesty supporters took more than 6.6 million actions in solidarity with young people facing injustices head on — to support them, give them strength and make it possible for them to continue to dare where...

Following my experience in high school as a member of a human rights initiative created to raise awareness about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada, I knew that I wanted to further my dedication to human rights advocacy and activism, and that Amnesty International would...

In my life I have always been driven by a strong desire to seek out justice that governments and institutions have failed to provide and this is what brought me to be involved with Amnesty International. What I love about Amnesty is that the organization is a powerful international network made...

In my life I have always been driven by a strong desire to seek out justice that governments and institutions have failed to provide and this is what brought me to be involved with Amnesty International. What I love about Amnesty is that the organization is a powerful international network made...

Thanks to you, Write for Rights 2019 was our biggest campaign yet! In December and beyond, more than 8,500 people across Canada gathered at 367 public and private events in homes, schools, cafes, places of worship, workplaces and more, to send 78,000+ letters, emails, petitions, cards and tweets...