Reports

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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Digitally Divided: Technology, Inequality, and Human Rights

This Amnesty International report examines how new technologies are increasingly central to how people access work and essential services around…

October 3, 2023

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Death Came to Our Home: War Crimes and Civilian Suffering in Sudan

Amnesty International calls on regional and international powers to respond to the scale of the Sudan conflict.

August 3, 2023

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Ukraine Organizational Report: Key Findings and Learnings related to the August 4, 2022 Press Release on Ukraine

The International Board shares today the Ukraine Organizational Report which consolidates the learnings and recommendations drawn from the independent reviews…

May 17, 2023

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Facebook’s Systems Promoted Violence Against Rohingya in Myanmar; Meta Owes Reparations – New Report

Facebook owner Meta’s dangerous algorithms and reckless pursuit of profit substantially contributed to the atrocities perpetrated by the Myanmar military…

September 28, 2022

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Torture and Other Ill-Treatment of Haitian Asylum Seekers in the US Is Rooted in Anti-Black Racism

U.S. authorities have subjected Haitian asylum seekers to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill-treatment that amounts to race-based torture,…

September 22, 2022

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Fleeing Afghans Unlawfully Returned After Coming Under Fire at Iranian and Turkish Borders

Iranian and Turkish security forces have repeatedly pushed back Afghans who attempt to cross their borders to reach safety, including…

August 30, 2022

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Detainees Tortured to Crush Opposition to Coup in Myanmar

Authorities in Myanmar’s prisons and interrogation centres routinely subject people detained for resisting the 2021 military coup to torture and…

August 1, 2022

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Taliban’s ‘Suffocating Crackdown’ Destroying Lives of Women and Girls in Afghanistan – New Report

The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, Amnesty…

July 26, 2022

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Abandoned by the State in Host Countries, Venezuelan Women Face Increasing Gender-Based Violence

The Colombian and Peruvian states are largely absent when it comes to guaranteeing, protecting and respecting the right to a…

July 12, 2022

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Amnesty International USA Statement on President Biden’s Executive Order to Protect Access to Reproductive Health Services 

Today, President Biden signed an executive order that makes strides to safeguard access to abortion and protect patient privacy, among…

July 8, 2022

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Non-renewal of last aid corridor risks humanitarian catastrophe for millions in Syria

UN Security Council members must extend the cross-border resolution that allows the UN to deliver aid to at least 4…

July 5, 2022

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Deadly Mariupol Theatre Strike in Ukraine ‘a Clear War Crime’ by Russian Forces – New Investigation

An extensive investigation by Amnesty International has concluded that Russian military forces committed a war crime when they struck the…

June 29, 2022