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Death Penalty Awareness Panel
The Hamilton Amnesty High School Chapter is hosting a virtual panel focused on highlighting the injustices regarding capital punishment in the US through 5 unique narratives. Our speakers are: -…
Press Release
Abuse of Protesters and Prisoners Highlights Urgent Need to Regulate Torture Tools
The world must act urgently to prohibit the global trade in equipment designed to inflict excruciating pain and injury, Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation said today, ahead of…
Report
Tech giants are complicit in industrial- scale repression in Viet Nam
Tech giants Facebook and YouTube are allowing themselves to become tools of the Vietnamese authorities’ censorship and harassment of its population, in an alarming sign of how these companies could…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Blogger Detained in Psychiatric Hospital (Kazakhstan: UA 165.20)
Blogger and journalist, Aigul Utepova, was forcibly placed in a psychiatric hospital in Nursultan, the capital of Kazakhstan, on 23 November. She has been under house arrest since 17 September…
Press Release
Write for Rights: A chance for governments to stand up for humanity
Amnesty International today launches the world’s biggest human rights campaign, Write for Rights, calling on governments to put right injustices against individuals who are detained or persecuted in countries across…
Press Release
G20 leaders, don’t buy the spin: Saudi Arabia’s real changemakers are in jail
G20 leaders attending this weekend’s virtual summit hosted by Saudi Arabia must take the Saudi authorities to task for their shameless hypocrisy on women’s rights, Amnesty International said today. Women’s empowerment features prominently on Saudi Arabia’s G20 Agenda, despite the fact the activists who spearheaded campaigns for women’s rights are languishing in jail or…
Press Release
Bill Pelke will be remembered as a lifelong activist for death penalty abolition
Amnesty International USA is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Bill Pelke, a longtime death penalty abolition activist, friend and ally. Bill served as the Indiana State Death…
Press Release
Mass execution of 21 individuals in Iraq is an outrage
Responding to the execution on Monday of 21 individuals in Iraq, including individuals allegedly affiliated to the Islamic State (IS) and convicted of terror-related charges, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Deputy…
Press Release
United Nations Review Will Bring U.S. Human Rights Abuses to Light
As the United States’ human rights record is examined under the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review during a two-week session, which begins today, Amnesty International USA issued…
Press Release
The U.S. Must Not Deport People to Cameroon
Amnesty International USA calls upon the Trump administration to refrain from deporting people to Cameroon, as the administration schedules deportations this week from Alexandria Airport in Louisiana. The organization is…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Jailed Lawyer’s Health at Serious Risk (Iran: UA 126.18)
Jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s health is at serious risk after the Iranian authorities returned her to prison from the hospital, even though a doctor said she needed a…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Tortured Kurdish Man at Risk of Execution (Iran: UA 146.20)
Iranian Kurdish prisoner Heidar Ghorbani, 47, is at risk of execution for “armed rebellion against the state” (baghi), despite serious fair trial violations and the trial court confirming that he…