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March For Our Lives
Join Amnesty at the March for Our Lives to End Gun Violence Amnesty is proud to join the March for Our Lives nationwide on March 24, 2018 in a call…
Press Release
Amnesty International Ads Rejected By WMATA to be displayed across Washington
An ad campaign from Amnesty International USA that was rejected by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) will be displayed across the city today and tomorrow, calling on activists…
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Statement on School Shooting in Parkland, Florida
The following statement can be attributed to Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA: “While our thoughts are with the victims, survivors and families of this senseless attack, we…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: New Threats Against Indigenous Community (Kenya: UA 6.18)
Kenyan authorities are forcibly evicting the Sengwer Indigenous community from their ancestral home, the Embobut forest. The evictions have been carried out by the authorities in violation of the Constitution,…
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As U.S. Senate takes up legislation, Amnesty finds fresh evidence of ongoing ethnic cleansing in Myanmar
The Myanmar security forces’ devastating campaign against the Rohingya population in northern Rakhine State is far from over, Amnesty International said today, as it published new evidence of ongoing violations…
Press Release
Nigeria: Dozens killed as military launches air attacks on villages beset by spiralling communal violence
The Nigerian authorities’ response to communal violence is totally inadequate, too slow and ineffective, and in some cases unlawful, Amnesty International said today, as clashes between herdsmen and farmers in…
Press Release
Honduras: Government deploys dangerous and illegal tactics to silence population
The Honduran government is deploying dangerous and illegal tactics to silence any dissenting voices in the aftermath of one of the country’s worst political crisis in a decade, including preventing…
Update
Board letter to McConnell re Rohingya
December 5, 2017 Senator Mitch McConnell Majority Leader S-230 Capitol Building Washington, DC 20510 Re: Amnesty International USA Urges Senate to Pass the Burma Human Rights and Freedom Act (S.…
Update
Human Rights on Capitol Hill: November 2017
In this edition of Human Rights on Capitol Hill: (1) Rohingya: Secretary Tillerson condemns Myanmar military’s atrocities against the Rohingya as ethnic cleansing, but Congress needs to pass legislation to ensure…
Press Release
Amnesty launches world’s biggest human rights campaign
The family of an LGBTI activist hacked to death in Bangladesh, the sister of a young man gunned down by Jamaican police, and 11 human rights defenders in Turkey are…
Report
Nigeria/UK/Netherlands: Investigate Shell for complicity in murder, rape and torture
The organization has released a ground-breaking review of thousands of pages of internal company documents and witness statements, as well as Amnesty International’s own archive from the period.
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Turkey: Global figures join call to “end gross injustice” as trial of Amnesty Chair and Director and other rights activists resumes
More than 70 renowned cultural and political figures have come together to demand that Turkish authorities drop trumped-up terrorism charges against 11 human rights defenders, including Amnesty International’s Turkey Director and Chair.
