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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Tunisia: When Bones Speak the Struggle to Bring Faysal Baraket’s Torturers to Justice
On a grey, rainy 1 March 2013 in the small town of Manzil Bouzalfa in Nabeul governorate, the exhumation of Faysal Baraket, a young man who had been tortured to…
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“Will I be Next?” US Drone Strikes in Pakistan
“Will I be next?,” a new report from Amnesty International, finds that this killing, and several other so-called targeted killings from US drone strikes in Pakistan, violated the right to…
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‘We Cannot Live Here Anymore’ Refugees from Syria in Egypt
This report focuses on the arrest, detention and deportation of refugees from Syria in Egypt, particularly following recent incidents in which boats leaving for Europe have been intercepted by the…
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USA: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Human Rights
The USA ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in June 1992. Two decades later, the USA is failing to live up to its human rights obligations on…
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Told to move on: Forced evictions of Roma in France
More than a year since the election of a new government, the cycle of repeated forced evictions continue to Roma people in France. The measures the French Government has taken…
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Gezi Park Protests: Brutal Denial of the Right to Peaceful Assembly in Turkey
On 30 May 2013, police cleared Gezi Park in central Istanbul of a small group of protestors opposed to its destruction. The denial of their right to protest and the…
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Kosovo: Unmik’s Legacy, The Failure To Deliver Justice And Reparation To The Relatives Of The Abducted
Amnesty International has for over a decade highlighted the continuing lack of justice, truth and reparation for the victims of human rights violations committed during and in the aftermath of…
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Egypt: ‘People were dying all around me’; Testimonies from Cairo Violence on 14 August 2013
At about 6.00am on 14 August 2013 the security forces carried-out operations to clear two pro-Morsi sit-ins in Greater Cairo, ongoing since 28 June 2013. The dispersal came after repeated…
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IF YOU LOVE YOUR LIFE, MOVE OUT! NIGERIA: Forced Eviction in Badia East, Lagos State
People in Badia East have displayed extraordinary courage, solidarity and resilience during and after the forced eviction. The community has organized to support its members in numerous ways and to…
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‘I am fallen into darkness.’ The case of Obaidullah, Guantánamo detainee now in his 12th year without trial
For over a decade, Obaidullah has been incarcerated without trial some 8,000 miles from his home and family in Afghanistan. His daughter, born two days before he was taken into…
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Egypt: ‘There was no door on which I did not knock”; Coptic Christians caught in attacks and state’s failures
On 5 July 2013, four Coptic Christian men were killed by local residents in the Nagah Hassan district of Dab’iya village, some 18 kilometres west of Luxor. At least four…
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Testimony before the U.S. Senate on July 24, 2013: Closing Guantanamo: The National Security, Fiscal, and Human Rights Implications
Hearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, civil rights, and human rights. Statement on behalf of Amnesty International USA by Zeke Johnson, Director of the Security& Human Rights…