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Press Release
Years of Impunity for Xenophobic Crimes Driving the Latest Attacks in South Africa
The ongoing and escalating attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, and looting of foreign owned shops in South Africa,…
September 4, 2019
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Report
Bangladeshi Parents Fear for Lost Generation of Rohingya Children
Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced around 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, refugees are still…
August 29, 2019
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Press Release
Trump Administration Uses Disaster Relief to Fund a Disaster of Its Own Making
Responding to reports that DHS intends to reprogram disaster relief funds for ICE detention beds and funds for temporary court…
August 27, 2019
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Press Release
Two Years since Rohingya Exodus, Impunity Reigns Supreme for Military
With the threat of returns to Myanmar once again looming over Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, Amnesty International warned that Rakhine…
August 22, 2019
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Press Release
Trump Administration Seeks to Demonize Refugees With New Policy
Responding to reports that the Trump administration is considering a new policy that would allow state and local jurisdictions to…
August 21, 2019
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Press Release
New Flores Regulations Brazenly Attack Children’s Rights
According to reports, the Trump administration is issuing a final rule that will effectively terminate the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement,…
August 21, 2019
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Press Release
Mass Hunger Strike at al-Aqrab Prison Over Denial of Family Visits and Dire Conditions
The Egyptian authorities must immediately end cruel and inhumane detention conditions and allow regular family visits at al-Aqrab maximum security…
July 31, 2019
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Press Release
Amnesty International Israel’s Office Targeted with Death Threat
The Israeli authorities must urgently investigate death threats targeting three civil society organizations, including Amnesty International’s Israeli section in Tel…
July 31, 2019
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Press Release
Plans to Close Carrizo Springs Demonstrate Conditions That are Not in Children’s Best Interests
Responding to reports that the Department of Health and Human Services will be shutting down the facility in Carrizo Springs,…
July 23, 2019
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Report
No Home for Children: US Government Detention of Children at Homestead Facility Cruel and Unlawful
The Homestead facility housing children who traveled alone to the United States must be shut down as quickly as possible,…
July 17, 2019
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Press Release
ICE Raids Encourage Hate and Discrimination Toward Immigrants and Communities of Color
Responding to the announcement of thousands of raids planned for Sunday by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Charanya Krishnaswami,…
July 11, 2019
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Press Release
Abhorrent attack on migrant detention center in Libya must be investigated as a war crime
The International Criminal Court must order an urgent investigation into an abhorrent attack on the Tajoura immigration detention center in…
July 3, 2019