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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At least 20 states resort to death penalty in flawed anti-terror drive
Countries are increasingly resorting to the death penalty in a flawed attempt to combat terrorism-related crimes, Amnesty International said today…
October 7, 2016
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Tackling the global refugee crisis: From shirking to sharing responsibility
Wealthy countries have shown a complete absence of leadership and responsibility, leaving just 10 countries, which account for less than…
September 30, 2016
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Scorched Earth, Poisoned Air: Sudanese Government Forces Ravage Jebel Marra, Darfur
An Amnesty International investigation has gathered horrific evidence of the repeated use of what are believed to be chemical weapons…
September 26, 2016
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Stranded hope: Hungary’s sustained attack on the rights of refugees and migrants
Thousands of asylum-seekers – including unaccompanied children – are suffering violent abuse, illegal push backs and unlawful detention at the…
September 26, 2016
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Thailand: A culture of torture under the military
Since seizing power in a 2014 coup, Thailand’s military authorities have allowed a culture of torture and other ill-treatment to…
September 23, 2016
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European paralysis forces tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to live in appalling conditions
One year on from promises to relocate over 66,000 asylum-seekers from Greece, just 6% relocated A year after EU leaders…
September 22, 2016
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Nigeria: You have signed your death warrant
A Nigerian police unit set up to combat violent crime has instead been systematically torturing detainees in its custody as…
September 20, 2016
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Honduras/Guatemala: Attacks on the rise in world’s deadliest countries for environmental activists
An insidious wave of threats, bogus charges, smear campaigns, attacks and killings of environmental and land activists in recent months…
August 30, 2016
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We are defending the land with our blood: Defenders of the land, territory and environment in Honduras and Guatemala
An insidious wave of threats, bogus charges, smear campaigns, attacks and killings of environmental and land activists in recent months…
August 29, 2016
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‘It breaks the human’: Torture, disease and death in Syria’s prisons
Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons The horrifying experiences of detainees subjected to rampant…
August 16, 2016
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We Are Still Running: War Crimes in Leer, South Sudan
Amid a fresh outbreak of fighting in South Sudan, a new report by Amnesty International reveals the true horror suffered…
July 27, 2016
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You Don’t Exist: Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances, and Torture in Eastern Ukraine
Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding civilians in prolonged arbitrary, and sometimes secret…
July 20, 2016