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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Somalia: Prioritise Protection for People with Disabilities
More than two decades of conflict, inadequate health services and discrimination have left people with disabilities in Somalia at risk of forced marriage, violence, rape and repeated forced evictions, said…
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You Shall Procreate: Attacks on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Iran
Women in Iran could face significant restrictions on their use of contraceptives and be further excluded from the labour market unless they have had a child if two proposed laws…
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Guilty of Defending Rights: Azerbaijan’s Human Rights Defenders and Activists Behind Bars
Threats, physical violence and the imprisonment of government critics have become the hallmark of the Azerbaijan regime as the country prepares to host the first European Games, said Amnesty International…
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State of the World 2014/2015
This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. Governments pay lip service…
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Open for Business? Corporate Crime and Abuses at Myanmar Copper Mine
Canadian and Chinese mining interests have profited from, and in some cases colluded with the Myanmar authorities in serious human rights abuses and illegal activity around the Monywa copper mine…
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Missing the Point: Lack of Adequate Investigation of Hate Crimes in Bulgaria
Bulgaria’s failure to adequately investigate and prosecute hate crimes is fuelling fear, discrimination and ultimately violence.
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Untold Stories of Syria’s Most Vulnerable Refugees in New Amnesty Report
This report throws the spotlight on the human face of Syria’s refugee crisis, through the stories of eight people and families who have fled the conflict and are struggling to…
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Benghazi’s Descent into Chaos: Abductions, Summary Killings and Other Abuses
Targeted UN sanctions and accountability, including through the International Criminal Court (ICC), are urgently needed to end rampant abductions, torture, summary killings and other abuses by rival forces in Libya,…
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“Circles of hell:” Domestic, Public and State Violence Against Women in Egypt
Despite some recent piecemeal reforms, shortfalls in Egyptian laws and entrenched impunity continue to foster a culture of routine sexual and gender-based violence in the country.
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15 Minutes to Leave: Denial of the Right to Adequate Housing in Post-Quake Haiti
Five years on from a devastating earthquake in Haiti, tens of thousands of people remain homeless as government policy failures, forced evictions and short-term solutions have failed many who lost…
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Escape from Hell- Torture, Sexual Slavery in Islamic State Captivity in Iraq
Torture, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, suffered by women and girls from Iraq’s Yezidi minority who were abducted by the armed group calling itself the Islamic State…
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136 To Go…The Unbearable Slowness of Closing Guantánamo
Uruguay latest country to help USA towards ending detentions at prison camp