Press Release
National Security Law has created a human rights emergency in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) has decimated the city’s freedoms and created a landscape increasingly devoid of human rights…
June 29, 2021
Human Rights and Compounding Crises in Lebanon, 2020-2021 Update
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, MASS PROTESTS, ARBITRARY ARRESTS, AND BRUTAL REPRESSION WITH IMPUNITY Government corruption and economic collapse, violent repression, and devastation…
June 24, 2021
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Urges Congress to Pass the Break the Cycle of Violence Act
At a time when guns are killing more and more Americans, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative Steven Horsford (D-NV)…
June 24, 2021
Amnesty International Statement for the Record on Impacts of COVID-19 in MENA Region, Need for U.S. Action – House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee
On June 22, 2021, Amnesty International USA’s Middle East and North Africa advocacy director Philippe Nassif and Mustafa Kassem Fellow…
June 24, 2021
Press Release
Biden Expands Plan to Bring Back Asylum Seekers Forced to Wait in Dangerous Border Towns Under Trump’s Remain In Mexico Policy
This week, the Biden administration announced that it would take steps to allow additional asylum seekers to come back to the U.S.…
June 23, 2021
Press Release
Global Coalition of Over 200 Groups Call for Permanent End to Global Gag Rule
A coalition of over 200 international civil society organizations, organized by Planned Parenthood Global and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, released…
June 22, 2021
Press Release
Executives of surveillance companies Amesys and Nexa Technologies indicted for complicity in torture
Responding to the news that four executives of French surveillance companies Amesys and Nexa Technologies have been indicted for complicity…
June 22, 2021
Report
New Report Finds Biden’s Immigration Approach Falls Short of Promises
According to a new report released today by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Biden administration’s approach to people seeking safety…
June 17, 2021
Amnesty International USA Calls on President Biden to Raise Human Rights Concerns with President Putin at June 16 Geneva summit
On June 11, 2021, Amnesty International USA wrote to the Biden administration about the swiftly deteriorating human rights situation in…
June 11, 2021
Report
The United States and Mexico deporting thousands of unaccompanied migrant children into harm’s way
The US and Mexican governments are forcibly returning tens of thousands of unaccompanied children seeking safety to the countries they…
June 11, 2021
Press Release
Advocacy Groups Release Recommendations for Expanded Community Sponsorship Program for Refugees
Today, the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), and the Niskanen Center published a joint paper offering recommendations to the Departments of…
June 10, 2021
Press Release
Aleksei Navalny’s NGOs Banned as “Extremist,” Depriving Thousands of Their Rights
Reacting to the news that a Russian court designated three organizations founded by Aleksei Navalny as “extremist”, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty…
June 10, 2021