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State Department Gathering on Religious Freedom Must Lead By Example
As the State Department hosts the first Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, Amnesty International USA urges the Trump Administration to…
July 24, 2018
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UN Refugee Compact: World leaders not up to the challenge
Responding to the release of the final text for the Global Compact on Refugees, which was agreed by UN Member States, Charmain…
July 24, 2018
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Philippines: Duterte’s human rights smears are a classic diversionary tactic
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte today attacked critics of his deadly ‘war on drugs,’ telling human rights activists: “your concern is…
July 23, 2018
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SACHA BARON COHEN AUCTION TO BENEFIT AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Following this evening’s airing of Showtime’s, Who Is America, host Sacha Baron Cohen will be auctioning off the “Water Board Kit”…
July 22, 2018
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Iraq: Security forces deliberately attack peaceful protesters while internet is disabled
Peaceful protesters in southern Iraq and Baghdad fear authorities are deliberately disabling internet access before security forces attack and open…
July 19, 2018
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Australia: EU countries must not repeat human rights failures of cruel Australian refugee policy
Australia’s notorious policy of detaining refugees and people seeking asylum in horrific offshore detention centres is in danger of being…
July 19, 2018
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Nicaragua: Government must end repression after three months of senseless slaughter
Three months after the government of President Daniel Ortega first unleashed its lethal strategy of repression on student demonstrators on…
July 18, 2018
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Turkey: Lifting of state of emergency must pave road back to justice
Responding to the fact that Turkey’s the state of emergency will not be renewed when it expires at the end…
July 18, 2018
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Syria: Putin takes hypocrisy to a new level with remarks on Raqqa civilian deaths
In an interview with Fox News following the Helsinki Summit on 16 July, Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized the high civilian death…
July 17, 2018
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Syria: US-led Coalition ‘deeply in denial’ about civilian casualties in Raqqa
The US-led Coalition’s flurry of responses rejecting the findings of a recent Amnesty International report on the devastation wrought by their…
July 16, 2018
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Afghanistan: Record high civilian casualties make returns unjustifiable
The international community cannot abandon the Afghan people who have fled conflict and violence at a time when civilian casualties…
July 16, 2018
Report
Chad: People forced to pay a heavy price for harsh austerity measures
A host of austerity measures implemented by the Chadian authorities is pushing people into deeper poverty, undermining access to necessary…
July 15, 2018