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Myanmar: Scorched-earth campaign fuels ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Rakhine State

Amnesty International can reveal new evidence pointing to a mass-scale scorched-earth campaign across northern Rakhine State, where Myanmar security forces…

September 14, 2017

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Amnesty International USA Elects Aniket Shah Board Chair, Fills Other Leadership Posts

Amnesty International USA announced today that Aniket Shah has been elected Chair of its Board of Directors. Shah has been…

September 14, 2017

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Amnesty International USA Responds to Trump Plan to Drastically Decrease Refugee Admissions

Responding to reports that the White House may drastically reduce the number of refugees admitted to the United States to…

September 13, 2017

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U.S. National Faces Execution in Saudi Arabia Despite Unfair Trial

The sentence of a U.S. national facing execution after unfair legal proceedings in Saudi Arabia must be rescinded and a…

September 13, 2017

Sheet of paper Report

A Toxic State

The Peruvian government is neglecting the health of hundreds of Indigenous people whose only sources of water are contaminated by…

September 13, 2017

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Ohio Executes Second Prisoner After Three-Year Hiatus

The state of Ohio executed Gary Otte this morning, marking the second execution following a three-year hiatus that ended on…

September 13, 2017

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Losing Sight in Kashmir: The Impact of Pellet-Firing Shotguns

Pellet-firing shotguns, which have been responsible for blinding, killing and traumatizing hundreds of people in Kashmir, must be immediately banned,…

September 13, 2017

Amnesty International USA activists speak out against a ban and a wall against people
AIUSA Executive Director Margaret and AI Secretary General Salil Shetty delivered a letter to the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, outlining numerous personal stories of people who are affected by the Muslim ban, asking DHS to release full information about how the ban has been implemented, and demanding that DHS help roll back the ban. As a part of the protests outside, we projected “No Ban, No Wall” on the building along with photos of refugees in Lebanon and Kenya provided by Magnum Photography.

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Amnesty International USA Reacts to Supreme Court Decision on Refugee Ban

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily uphold the refugee ban, Naureen Shah, Amnesty International USA senior director of campaigns,…

September 12, 2017

BALTIMORE, MD - AUGUST 10: A mural of Freddie Gray near the location where he was arrested is shown August 10, 2016 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Justice Department is scheduled to release a report later this morning highly critical of the Baltimore Police Department for systematically stopping, searching and arresting the city's black residents, frequently without grounds for doing so. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Failure to File Federal Charges in Freddie Gray Case Points to Need for Reforms to Lethal Force Laws

Following the announcement that the Department of Justice will not charge any Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie…

September 12, 2017

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Reports Israeli government plans to retaliate against Amnesty International over settlements campaign

Responding to reports circulating in Israeli media today suggesting that the Israeli Finance Ministry is planning to take action against…

September 12, 2017

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Saudi Arabia: Execution looms for teen tortured to “confess” to protest-related crimes

A young Saudi Arabian Shi’a man who claims he was tortured to “confess” alleged crimes committed when he was 16…

September 12, 2017

Sheet of paper Report

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Last chance for justice for over 20,000 wartime sexual violence survivors

A quarter of a century after the start of the conflict, more than 20,000, survivors of wartime sexual violence in…

September 11, 2017