Amnesty International produces reports based on rigorous and independent research. These reports document patterns of human rights abuses and provide a blueprint for change.
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.
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.
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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Window-dressing or pioneers of change? An assessment of Bahrain’s human rights oversight bodies
Five years after Bahrain’s 2011 uprising, which saw peaceful protesters beaten, shot, and killed in the streets, key reforms introduced…
November 18, 2016
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Agents of the people: Four years of foreign agents law in Russia
More than a hundred organizations have seen their funding shrink, their reputations tarnished, and their staff intimidated under Russia’s draconian…
November 17, 2016
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Iran: Macabre propaganda videos feature forced ‘confessions’ of executed Sunni men
Iran’s authorities have used crude propaganda tactics to dehumanize death penalty victims in the eyes of the public and divert…
November 15, 2016
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Nowhere else to go: Forced returns of Somali refugees from Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya
Kenya: Government officials coercing refugees back to war-torn Somalia Just two weeks before the deadline given to close the Dadaab…
November 14, 2016
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‘Where are we supposed to go?’: Destruction and forced displacement in Kirkuk
Iraq: Kurdish authorities bulldoze homes and banish hundreds of Arabs from Kirkuk Kurdish authorities have carried out a wave of…
November 3, 2016
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Out of Sight Out of Mind
Decades of resource development and government policy failures have strained the social fabric of communities in northeast British Columbia (BC),…
November 1, 2016
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Hotspot Italy: How EU’s flagship approach leads to violations of refugee and migrant rights
Italy: Beatings and unlawful expulsions amid EU push to get tough on refugees and migrants The European Union’s pressure on…
November 1, 2016
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We did not believe we would survive: Killings, rape and looting in Juba
South Sudanese government forces are responsible for deliberately killing civilians, raping women and girls and looting property in July in…
October 24, 2016
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For Your Eyes Only
Tech companies like Snapchat and Skype’s owner Microsoft are failing to adopt basic privacy protections on their instant messaging services,…
October 20, 2016
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Punished for Daesh’s crimes’: Displaced Iraqis abused by militias and government forces
Iraqis fleeing IS-held areas face torture, disappearance and death in revenge attacks Paramilitary militias and government forces in Iraq have…
October 17, 2016
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Australia’s regime of cruelty has turned Nauru into an open-air prison
The Australian government is subjecting refugees and asylum seekers to an elaborate and cruel system of abuse – brazenly flouting…
October 14, 2016
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Home Sweet Home? Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador’s role in a deepening refugee crisis
Central America turns its back on hundreds of thousands fleeing ‘war-like’ violence Governments in Central America are fuelling a deepening…
October 13, 2016