Agnes Callamard

The global head of Amnesty International is calling on Ottawa to bring the same intensity it has used to call out US tariffs and annexation threats to also call out breaches in human rights by Washington and other countries.

Amnesty International's head warned that the proceedings of COP27 in Egypt could be stained by the death of one of the country's leading rights activists from a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days.