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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Brazil: Picking up the pieces: Women’s experience of urban violence in Brazil
This report provides a glimpse of what life is like for women in many parts of Brazil today. In socially excluded communities women live out their lives against a backdrop…
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Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The Plight of the Internally Displaced in Afghanistan
As Afghans flee conflict and abandon their homes, the country faces a housing and humanitarian crisis that takes a terrible toll on children and families.
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Militias Threaten Hope for New Libya
Lawlessness still pervades Libya a year after the outbreak of the uprising which ended 42 year of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s repressive regime.
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The 10th Anniversary of “Law of War” Detentions at Guantánamo:
The modern history of the USA indeed includes examples of remarkable advocacy and progress for human rights. One area, however, where there has been zero human rights progress during the…
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Sudan: No End to Violence in Darfur
A new report by Amnesty International highlights how arms sales from China and Russia fuel human rights violations in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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‘Congress Has Made No Such Decision’: Three Branches of Government, Zero Remedy for Counter-Terrorism Abuses, Court Dismisses Padilla Lawsuit
This report describes the recent dismissal in federal court of a lawsuit brought by Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was held as an “enemy combatant” before being brought to…
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The Spring that Never Blossomed: Freedoms Supressed in Azerbaijan
In recent years, the government of Azerbaijan has consolidated its authoritarian rule. Peaceful protest has effectively been criminalized, journalists and bloggers jailed.
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Year of Rebellion: The State of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
This report describes the events of 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa, a year that saw millions of people flooding the streets to demand change.
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Guantánamo: A Decade of Damage to Human Rights
While Guantánamo may have dropped from the news headlines, the human rights concerns associated with it — detentions and torture among them — remain.
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Saudi Arabia: Repression in the Name of Security
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The True ‘Tragedy’: Delays and Failures in Tackling Oil Spills in the Niger Delta
Two Shell oil spills in 2008 continue to have catastrophic consequences for tens of thousands of people in Bodo, Nigeria.
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Pressure on Egyptian political parties to deliver on “25 January” expectations
In parliamentary elections beginning on 28 November, Egyptians will ask whether the demands and promises of the “25 January Revolution” will finally be fulfilled. Those contesting seats in the People’s…