Amnesty International presents the attached responses to the questionnaire on criminalization and prosecution of rape in Canada. This submission has been prepared in response to the call for contributions issued by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and...

Amnesty International opposes the detention of all children – whether accompanied or unaccompanied, whether migrants or asylum-seekers – solely for migration-related purposes, since such detention can never be in the child’s best interests. Amnesty International takes the position that a...

Amnesty International is calling on you to take this action on behalf of people in immigration detention across the Americas, to remind them that they are not forgotten during these incredibly trying times. Help us light the lamp of hope across the region – from the tip of North America all the way...

In its 2018 review of Canada, the UN Committee against Torture identified four areas of concern to be included in an interim report by Canada within one year. That report was submitted on February 21, 2020. Amnesty International is providing this submission with respect to the four areas identified...

This brief outlines Amnesty International’s concerns and associated recommendations with respect to violations of the rights of children in Canada for consideration in relation to the upcoming adoption of the list of issues and subsequent review of Canada by the Committee on the Rights of the...

Amnesty International provides the below information to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (the Committee) ahead of the adoption of the List of Issues Prior to Reporting for the seventh periodic report of Canada at its 66th pre-sessional working group.

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In this submission, Amnesty International sets out its concerns about the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (the Convention) by Canada, including (i) the implementation of Canada’s international human rights obligations; (ii) violence...

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women reviewed Canada’s combined eighth and ninth periodic reports in October 2016. In its Concluding Observations, the Committee requested information from Canada within two years on its implementation of particular...

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination reviewed Canada’s 21-23rd combined reports in August 2017. In its Concluding Observations, the Committee requested information from Canada within one year on its implementation of particular recommendations relating to Site C, Mount...

The broad themes of this brief include concern about torture or ill-treatment within Canada, complicity in torture and other ill-treatment abroad, access to remedies and redress for survivors of torture, and continuing failure to accede to the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture. It...