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The Malawian authorities must step up action to protect people with albinism who are being targeted for ritual murders, Amnesty International said today, following another attack in the country’s capital Lilongwe.

March 10, 2017

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Responding to the Hungarian Parliament’s adoption of a set of amendments allowing for the automatic detention of all asylum seekers while their applications are processed, Gauri Van Gulik, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Europe, said: “Plans to automatically detain some of the world’s most vulnerable people in shipping containers behind razor wire fences, sometimes for months on end, are beyond the pale. This new border detention package is just the latest in Hungary’s aggressive crackdown on refugees and migrants.”

March 7, 2017

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Amnesty International USA will mobilize its 1.2 million members and supporters across the country today to oppose President Trump’s new executive order banning travelers from six majority-Muslim countries. Activists will be asked to contact their members of Congress to ask them to repeal the ban once and for all.

March 7, 2017

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Amnesty International USA today announced that it is endorsing and supporting “A Day Without A Woman,” a day of strike taking place on March 8 to call for justice and equality for women. “We stand in solidarity with those striking on March 8 to demand justice and equality for women in the U.S. and around the world,” said Margaret Huang, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA. “We are alarmed by the attacks on human rights that we’ve seen in just the first month of the Trump Administration, and we proudly stand with millions of people across the U.S. and around…

March 2, 2017

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Sara Beltran Hernandez, a 26-year-old mother who fled violence in El Salvador and has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas for 15 months, has been released from detention to be with her family and to seek treatment for a brain tumor.

March 2, 2017

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In response to a replacement executive order banning travel to the U.S. from six Muslim-majority countries, Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, released the following statement:

March 1, 2017

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The Egyptian authorities must offer urgent protection to Coptic Christians in North Sinai and provide essential services and accommodation to hundreds who were forced to flee their homes, after seven people from the community were killed in a series of attacks there over the past month, said Amnesty International.

March 1, 2017

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Following President Trump’s remarks before a joint session of Congress this evening, Amnesty International USA executive director Margaret Huang issued the following statement:

February 28, 2017

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A neurosurgeon who examined Sara Beltran Hernandez, a 26-year-old mother detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed that she is suffering from a pituitary brain tumor that had bled into her brain. Luckily, the current size of the tumor means emergency brain surgery is not required at this time. Sara’s recommended plan of care includes follow-up MRI scans with a qualified neurosurgeon or neurologist approximately every six weeks in order to monitor the size of the tumor, as well as ongoing surveillance for changes in her symptoms. 

February 28, 2017

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New evidence has emerged of how the Huthi armed group is actively recruiting boys as young as 15 to fight as child soldiers on the front lines of the conflict in Yemen, said Amnesty International today after speaking to the families of three boys targeted this month by the appalling practice which violates international law. The families also confirmed the recruitment of a fourth local boy.

February 27, 2017

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In response to reports that the Homeland Security Department's intelligence arm has found that citizenship of the seven Muslim-majority countries in the proposed travel ban is an "unlikely indicator" of terrorism threats to the United States, Naureen Shah, Amnesty International USA’s Director, Security With Human Rights, said

February 25, 2017

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Amnesty International USA is launching a campaign today urging Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release a 26-year-old woman on parole so she can obtain urgent medical treatment and be with her family.

February 24, 2017