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We welcome articles from local volunteers and community members on the theme of human rights. We are interested in any position on human rights, so long as it maintains respect for all human rights for everyone. Please email bboyd@amnesty.ca with your submissions. Please note that opinions expressed in these blogs do not necessarily reflect the exact positions of Amnesty International and are not reviewed by staff
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Amnesty supports call to end fossil fuel subsidies
Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. We can’t solve the climate crisis while continuing to subsidize its very cause. Yet the Government of Canada has long spent…
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Ottawa for human rights: yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Amnesty International started out in the 1960’s with a beautifully simple idea; that anybody could speak out in defence of others who were unjustly imprisoned or denied their…
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Amnesty’s Human Rights Report 2023
This week, Amnesty International released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world. And it raises serious and urgent concerns about Indigenous Peoples’ rights and climate justice in…
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VOLUNTEER POSITIONS – BOARD OF DIRECTORS + GLOBAL DELEGATE
Amnesty International Canadian Section (English-Speaking), also known as AICSES, is seeking interested and qualified individuals to do the important governance work that keeps the organization healthy and able…
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Meet an Activist – Brandon Boyd
I am an activist, someone who feels that we must fight injustice and help create a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.
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Write for Rights Event A Big Success!
For the first time in 3 years, Amnesty International Ottawa Gatineau held our in-person Write for Rights 2022 event hosted by the amazing folks at Arlington 5 Coffeehouse.…
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