Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada The report is being launched at a pivotal juncture for Canada, as the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis, and surging anti-rights ...

That’s because this March, the five-year statute of limitations on COVID-era fraud prosecution is set to expire. Criminals ...

We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty,” she writes. Fat chance of that. Oster has been savaged on social media and angrily rebutted in other journals. Few people, especially ...

Prosecutions are expected to continue for at least the next five years, thanks to new provisions passed at the height of the pandemic, giving law enforcement and prosecution agencies a longer statute ...

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As today marks four months since the launch of a state-led campaign of mass arbitrary detention of thousands of people in Ethiopia’s Amhara region in September 2024, Amnesty International’s Regional ...

“With enough H5 in these animals and enough seasonal flu in humans, you get them together, and you have a recipe for a potential pandemic virus.” The recent bird flu outbreak is being regarded ...

The government is sending a crystal clear message that it has no intention of tolerating any form of dissent or improving its abysmal human rights record,” said Mahmoud Shalaby, Egypt Researcher at ...

It was more than a month before the World Health Organization's March declaration of a global pandemic that introduced most other Canadians to concepts like masking and social distancing.

It is extremely unlikely that the pandemic was caused by a lab leak,” said foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning at a press conference. “The U.S. needs to stop politicizing and weaponizing ...

The 268-page report, commissioned by the UCP government, and produced by a 13-member task force, including some outspoken critics of public health measures used to control the pandemic ...