A new report by Amnesty International traces the years-long campaign of violence, harassment, discrimination, and dispossession against Indigenous Wet’suwet’en land defenders resisting the construction of Coastal GasLink (CGL) liquified natural gas pipeline through their unceded ancestral territory without their free, prior and informed consent. The report’s launch coincides with the 27th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Delgamuukw v British Columbia, a ruling which
Today, on 25 July, International Afro-Latina, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women’s Day, Amnesty International is highlighting nine defenders and collectives who have devoted their lives to ending inequality and violence, advocating a dignified life for all people. These are just a few examples of the thousands of Afro-Latina and Caribbean women who are leading and participating in different struggles for justice, freedom of expression, care for the earth, anti-racism, protection of refugees,