Amnesty International produces reports based on rigorous and independent research. These reports document patterns of human rights abuses and provide a blueprint for change.
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Defending the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in the Digital Age
Digital technology interventions are increasingly shaping and delivering the migration management and asylum policies of states.
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The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA
This report highlights the harms suffered by local communities from pollution emitted by the hundreds of petrochemical plants and refineries along the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.
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Silicon Shadows: Venture Capital, Human Rights, and the Lack of Due Diligence
Our analysis showed that leading VC firms and start-up accelerators are critically deficient in their responsibility to conduct human rights due diligence when investing in Generative AI start-ups.
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Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in camps
Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in camps Iraqi women and…
April 16, 2018
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Cuba: Change of leadership must herald a new era for human rights
The end of Raúl Castro’s mandate as president of Cuba, expected to come on April 19, presents a historic opportunity…
April 15, 2018
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Research Shows a Global Trend Towards Abolition of the Death Penalty, But More Work Remains
In its annual assessment of the death penalty, Amnesty International’s research points to a further global decrease in 2017, down…
April 11, 2018
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Irresponsible Chinese mining operation threatens to wipe out coastal village in Mozambique
An irresponsible Chinese mining operation in Mozambique has put an entire coastal village of more than a thousand people at…
March 28, 2018
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MAURITANIA: “A SWORD HANGING OVER OUR HEADS” : THE REPRESSION OF ACTIVISTS SPEAKING OUT AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AND SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA
This report seeks to analyze patterns of repression used against human rights defenders in Mauritania, particularly those who expose and…
March 22, 2018
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Online abuse of women thrives as Twitter fails to respect women’s rights
Twitter’s recent claim to “stand with women around the world” rings hollow in light of the multi-billion-dollar social media platform’s…
March 20, 2018
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Nigeria: Amnesty activists uncover serious negligence by oil giants Shell and Eni
A groundbreaking research project by Amnesty International has exposed evidence of serious negligence by oil giants Shell and Eni, whose…
March 15, 2018
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Remaking Rakhine State
Myanmar’s Rakhine State is being militarized at an alarming pace, as authorities are building security force bases and bulldozing land…
March 11, 2018
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Amnesty International State of the World’s Human Rights Annual Report 2017-18
The world is reaping the terrifying consequences of hate-filled rhetoric that threatens to normalize massive discrimination against marginalized groups, Amnesty…
February 22, 2018
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Punishment not protection: Australia’s treatment of refugees and asylum seekers in Papua New Guinea
The Australian government has abandoned hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, leaving them in a situation that more closely resembles…
January 31, 2018
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Overlooked, Under-Protected: Mexico’s Deadly Refoulement of Central Americans seeking asylum
Mexican migration authorities are routinely turning back thousands of people from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to their countries without…
January 23, 2018
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Less equal: LGBTI human rights defenders in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan
Discrimination, homophobia and Russia’s crusade against non-traditional sexual relationships have helped fuel a worrying rise in hostility towards LGBTI human…
December 22, 2017