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Update
Help Beatriz with One More Request: Stand Up for Other Women & Girls
We would like to share a note that Beatriz wrote to express her gratitude to all those who took part in this effort.
July 9, 2013
Update
Deconstructing the Leahy Law: Fact vs Fiction
There are some misconceptions currently floating around about the US government's Leahy Law and we want to set the record straight on a few things.
July 9, 2013
Press Release
Egypt Must Conduct Impartial Investigation into Reported Deaths
Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa division, released the following statement, calling for an urgent independent investigation to deliver justice for these victims of human rights violations.
July 8, 2013
Press Release
Egypt Protest Deaths Are a ‘Suspicious Failure’ by Security Forces
Egyptian police and security forces are failing to protect protesters and bystanders from violence amid the country’s political strife, on the brink of the army’s threatened intervention to resolve the crisis.
July 3, 2013
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Sexual Assaults On Female Protesters Continue Amid Political Turmoil
Women and girls protesting in the vicinity of Tahrir Square are, time and time again, being sexually attacked by mobs, with authorities remaining idle.
July 3, 2013
Update
U.S. Authorities Must Not Persecute Whistleblower Edward Snowden
The U.S. authorities’ relentless campaign to hunt down and block whistleblower Edward Snowden’s attempts to seek asylum is a gross violation of his human rights.
July 2, 2013
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Immigration Reform Must Not Fall Short of Human Rights
S. 744 was initially introduced in April, I was cautiously optimistic that this piece of legislation would finally begin to address many of the human rights violations in the immigration enforcement, detention and deportation process.
June 28, 2013
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Where is Honduran Journalist Anibal Barrow?
Attacks on journalists are not unusual in Honduras. Since January 2010, approximately 28 journalists have been killed in the country.
June 27, 2013
Update
Obama, Africa and LGBT Rights
Help us urge Mr. Obama to continue to speak out on behalf of the LGBT community in Africa. Stand with us as we demand justice for Noxolo, brutally murdered for who she was and the work she did.
June 27, 2013
Press Release
Texas Should Halt Its “Shameful” 500th Execution
Amnesty International is calling on Texas to halt its 500th execution since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976. In what it describes as a "shameful milestone," Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection in Huntsville at 6 p.m. local time, barring a stay of her execution.
June 26, 2013
Press Release
President Obama Must Use Africa Trip to Push Leaders to Protect Human Rights
On the eve of President Obama’s trip this week to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, Amnesty International USA is urging the president to demand greater respect for and protection of human rights across the African continent
June 26, 2013
Press Release
Amnesty International Applauds Supreme Court Ruling on Defense of Marriage Act
Frank Jannuzi, deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following comments in response to the Supreme Court ruling today on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California's Proposition 8
June 26, 2013