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Trump Administration Making Clearest Attempt Yet to Redefine Who Qualifies for Asylum Amid National Turmoil

Responding to a new Trump administration regulation that radically restricts who qualifies for asylum, Charanya Krishnaswami, the advocacy director for…

June 10, 2020

Press Release

President Trump tramples right to protest

Responding to remarks by President Donald Trump today in the Rose Garden, Ernest Coverson, the End Gun Violence campaign manager…

June 1, 2020

Press Release

Police Failing to Ensure Right to Protest, Endangering Lives

"U.S. police across the country are failing their obligations under international law to respect and facilitate the right to peaceful…

May 30, 2020

Press Release

Trump’s Decision To Withdraw Critical Funding from WHO Could Cost Lives

Following President Trump’s announcement this afternoon that the United States is ending its relationship with the World Health Organization, Joanne…

May 29, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump, with Attorney General William Barr, speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order related to regulating social media — Doug MIlls-Pool/Getty Images

Press Release

New Executive Order targeting social platforms is dangerous and irresponsible

Responding to an executive order by United States President Donald J. Trump designating that social media companies are shielded from…

May 28, 2020

Press Release

Israel Must Lift Punitive Travel Ban on Amnesty Campaigner

The Israeli authorities must immediately lift the apparently punitive travel ban imposed on Laith Abu Zeyad, Amnesty International’s Campaigner on…

May 28, 2020

MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA - APRIL 20: A woman carries firewoods inside an IDP camp on April 20, 2019 in Maiduguri, Nigeria. General elections were held in Nigeria on 23 February 2019 to elect the President, Vice President, House of Representatives and the Senate, which the incumbent president Muhammadu Buhari won. In Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno State in northeastern region, saw democracy working by electing the president, governor, and other cabinet members, despite the military tensions with Boko Haram, a Jihadist group which began its military insurgency in 2009. Ten years into the insurgency, the city has become relatively safer than before; however, it still possesses tens of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons of the armed-conflict who could not return their home villages. (Photo by Jean Chung/Getty Images)

Report

‘We dried our tears’: Addressing the toll on children of Northeast Nigeria’s conflict

Boko Haram has repeatedly attacked schools and abducted large numbers of children as soldiers or ‘wives,’ among other atrocities. The…

May 27, 2020

Woman wearing a facemark during COVID-19 pandemic looks at the cell phone in her hand — A woman checks her cellphone while wearing a facemask in Los Angeles on March 20, 2020, a day after Los Angeles County announced a near-lockdown, urging all residents to stay home except for essential needs. - California Governor Gavin Newsom took the most drastic step yet by any US official in the battle against the coronavirus, ordering the entire state of 40 million people to stay at home. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

Press Release

Contact tracing app security flaw exposed sensitive personal details of more than one million

Serious security vulnerabilities in Qatar’s mandatory contact tracing app, uncovered by Amnesty International, must act as a wake-up call for…

May 26, 2020

Large group of black and white people hold signs, reading — Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Press Release

Minneapolis police officer must be held accountable for use of deadly force

No person should ever wake up wondering if that day will be the day that a police officer ends their…

May 26, 2020

Protestor holds sign, — MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2019/09/14: A total of 76 protesters were arrested after shutting down the Microsoft retail store in Manhattan and blocking traffic on Fifth Avenue on September 14, 2019 in an act of non violent civil disobedience, while more than 500 members of a large coalition of immigration advocates targeting businesses profiting from the crisis in the border rallied outside. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Press Release

New hearing confirms ICE chooses family separation over family unity

In the midst of a global pandemic, ICE has a choice to either let families stay together and free or to…

May 22, 2020

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Amnesty International USA Joins Senate Push for Gun Violence Prevention Funding in COVID-19 Stimulus, Calls for Passage of Break the Cycle of Violence Act

Today, Senators Tammy Duckworth and Corey Booker, along with 18 other Senators released a letter to U.S. Senate leadership building…

May 22, 2020

Man holds a sign that reads — Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

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Media briefing on family separation during the COVID-19 pandemic

Family residential centers that are detaining families throughout the United States are now weaponizing the public health response to COVID-19…

May 19, 2020