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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 18h

✍🏾 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.

Register for Write for Rights now: bit.ly/4oewt4h

#W4R25

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 18h

The ICC conviction of Ali Muhammad Ali Abd – Al- Rahman should serve as warning to others committing abuses amid ongoing conflict.

Despite US sanctions on the ICC, the Court has shown a clear resolve to continue its pursuit of justice for all victims, including in Darfur.

Justice must prevail.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 1d

The horror in Gaza has been made possible with the support of the US and other allies and the tightening of Israel’s 18-year-long illegal blockade that has inflicted unimaginable suffering.

This must end now. Humanity cannot bear this any more.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 2d

The intensification of Israel’s brutal military offensive in #Gaza City has unleashed a new catastrophic phase of mass forced displacement

Call on the international community to lift the blockade & stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians
takeaction.amnesty.ca/page/173139/petition/1

#Palestine

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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 3d

What a great and enjoyable session!

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 3d

I am watching a session of @amnesty.ca 's Book Club tonight featuring @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social being interviewed by @pacinthe.bsky.social about his father Sen. Murray Sinclair's works.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 5d

The intensification of Israel’s brutal military offensive in Gaza City since mid-August has unleashed a new catastrophic phase of mass forced displacement, forcing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians – many of whom have already been uprooted multiple times.
amnesty.ca/human-rights...

Israel/ OPT: Catastrophic wave of mass displacement under inhumane conditions as Israel obliterates Gaza City

The intensification of Israel’s brutal military offensive in Gaza City since mid-August has unleashed a new catastrophic phase of mass forced

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 6d

The Matchstick, Amnesty Canada’s Arts & Human Rights magazine, is accepting submissions from youth under the age of 25

Deadline for submission is October 31st 2025.

Visit: thematchstick.org/submissions for eligibility and submission guidelines
Email [email protected] if you have questions.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 7d

Every year, the world’s largest human rights campaign takes place in Canada between November and February.

Whether you write letters or host an event, your words have the power to change lives. Register to join Write for Rights now:
amnesty.ca/write-for-rights/#register

Write for Rights | Amnesty International Canada

Every year, Amnesty supporters write for rights by sending letters and emails in support of people at risk of human rights abuses.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 7d

States have a responsibility to guarantee the Global Sumud Flotilla’s safe passage. They must step up pressure to protect the flotilla and demand an end of Israel's genocide, and of its unlawful blockade once and for all.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 8d

Today marks National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada

On this day, all non-Indigenous people are called upon to witness and act upon this truth, without which there can be no reconciliation

🔗 amnesty.ca/national-truth-reconciliation-day

#TruthAndReconciliation #NDTR #EveryChildMatters

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 9d

Enough is enough.
World leaders at the UN General Assembly must do better.
Say no to oppression. Say yes to courage, truth, and justice.
Be brave. Be bold.

#Resist #HumanityMustWin

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 13d

🎉Human rights win

All 10 provinces in Canada have stopped holding people in federal immigration in their jails

🍁Ontario has become the last province in Canada to block the Canada Border Services Agency from using provincial jails to incarcerate migrants and asylum seekers on administrative grounds

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 15d

Amnesty International Canada responds to David Lametti’s comments on CBC Radio about Israel’s Genocide in Gaza.
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Amnesty International Canada responds to David Lametti’s comments on CBC Radio about Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Responding to David Lametti's comments on CBC, Amnesty International stresses that Canada has a legal duty to prevent genocide in Gaza.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 15d

Sign our petition today calling on Canada to treat all workers with dignity and allow them to freely choose and change their employers.
bit.ly/4nKzUzm

Learn more about the Days of Action: bit.ly/46leUtf

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 15d

As calls to cancel or restrict Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program intensify, migrant workers & their allies are delivering a unified message to Parliamentarians: changes to TFWP & other migrant labour programs must be firmly grounded in human rights
amnesty.ca/human-rights...

Joint statement: People across Canada demand that Temporary Foreign Worker Program respect migrant workers’ rights and dignity

Any changes to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program must uphold workers' rights, 37 civil society organizations urge in a new letter.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 15d

Amnesty reps are participating in a press conference calling for rights-based changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The press conference is part of this year's Days of Action for Migrant Workers' Rights.

Watch here:: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoRh...

11:00 ET / 8:00 PT: Migrant workers respond to proposed changes to TFW program

YouTube video by cpac

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 15d

Migrant workers and civil society organizations are leading a press conference on Parliament Hill responding to the growing political calls to cancel or overhaul the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).

Watch the event live:
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

TFW Program: Migrant Workers Hold a News Conference

At a news conference in Ottawa, migrant workers and civil society groups respond to growing calls to cancel or change Canada’s temporary foreign worker (TFW) program. (no interpretation)

www.cpac.ca

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 16d

All 10 provinces in Canada have stopped holding people in federal immigration in their jails.

Ontario has become the last province to block the Canada Border Services Agency from using provincial jails to incarcerate migrants and asylum seekers on administrative grounds.
amnesty.ca/features/imm...

Human rights win: Immigration detention ends in provincial jails across Canada

Ontario was the last province in Canada to stop holding people in administrative immigration detention in its provincial jails.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 17d

There is no more time for excuses: as the evidence of Israel’s genocide continues to mount the international community cannot claim they didn’t know that the Israeli authorities and Israeli forces have committed and are continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 19d

🚫 It is beyond time for states, public institutions, companies, universities and other private actors to end their lethal addiction to economic gains and profits at all costs

🔗: amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/confronting-the-global-political-economy-enabling-israels-genocide-occupation-and-apartheid

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 20d

States, public institutions and companies the world over are enabling or profiting from Israel’s prolonged violations of international law.

Confronting the global political economy enabling Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid

States, public institutions and companies the world over are enabling or profiting from Israel’s prolonged violations of international law, including its

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 21d

It has been three years since the #WomanLifeFreedom uprising in Iran. Amnesty stands in solidarity with survivors, victims' families and all those still enduring the devastating consequences of the Iranian authorities brutal crackdown.

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 21d

📙 You're Invited: Niigaan Sinclair joins Book Club!

Join us for a live online event with Anishinaabe writer, editor and professor, Niigaan Sinclair, the son of the late Honourable Murray Sinclair.

📆 When: October 5, 2025: 7 PM EDT

🔗 Register here: bit.ly/46ngBoG

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 21d

Migrant workers and allies are coming together for a symbolic action on Parliament Hill, as part of the Days of Action taking place across the country to call for an end to closed work permits.

✊ Breaking Free from Closed Work Permits: Symbolic Action on Parliament Hill
📅September 22
🕕 6:00 PM

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 21d

What more needs to happen before Canada will recognize Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza?

🚫 Canada must end all arms sales to Israel and do everything in its power to protect Palestinians. Failing to act now risks complicity in an ongoing genocide

Justice for Palestinians cannot wait.

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