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Human Rights and Compounding Crises in Lebanon, 2020-2021 Update
ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, MASS PROTESTS, ARBITRARY ARRESTS, AND BRUTAL REPRESSION WITH IMPUNITY Government corruption and economic collapse, violent repression, and devastation of parts of Beirut from a historic explosion have left…
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Urges Congress to Pass the Break the Cycle of Violence Act
At a time when guns are killing more and more Americans, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative Steven Horsford (D-NV) took bold action today by reintroducing the Break the Cycle…
Update
Amnesty International Statement for the Record on Impacts of COVID-19 in MENA Region, Need for U.S. Action – House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee
On June 22, 2021, Amnesty International USA’s Middle East and North Africa advocacy director Philippe Nassif and Mustafa Kassem Fellow Amit Dadon submitted the following statement for the record to…
Press Release
Biden Expands Plan to Bring Back Asylum Seekers Forced to Wait in Dangerous Border Towns Under Trump’s Remain In Mexico Policy
This week, the Biden administration announced that it would take steps to allow additional asylum seekers to come back to the U.S. to safety after they were subjected to the Trump administration’s…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: ACTIVIST SPENDS A YEAR IN PRISON UNJUSTLY (Egypt: UA 139.20)
Egyptian human rights activist Sanaa Seif is serving an unjust 18 months’ sentence in Al-Qanater Prison for women following her conviction on bogus charges of spreading “false news”, “misusing social…
Press Release
Global Coalition of Over 200 Groups Call for Permanent End to Global Gag Rule
A coalition of over 200 international civil society organizations, organized by Planned Parenthood Global and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, released a joint statement today calling for a permanent end to the…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARBITRARILY DETAINED (Republic of Congo: UA 63.21)
Congolese human rights activists, Alexandre Ibacka Dzabana and Christ Dongui, are being arbitrary detained in connection to their human rights work and criticism of the government. In March, they were…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: LACK OF A SECOND DOSE ENDANGERS OVER 1.4 MILLION (Nepal: UA 71.21)
Over 1.4 million people of at-risk populations in Nepal took their first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine between March 7 and 15, 2021. To be fully immunized, and to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER ARBITRARILY DETAINED (Viet Nam: UA 44.21)
Prominent human rights defender and advocate Nguyen Thuy Hanh, was arrested on April 7, 2021 and charged under Article 117 of the Criminal Code for “opposing the State of the Socialist…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: VIKTAR PAULAU MAY HAVE BEEN EXECUTED (Belarus: UA 168.19)
Viktar Paulau has been at imminent risk of execution after the Supreme Court of Belarus upheld his conviction and death sentence on November 12, 2019. His sister was denied permission…
Report
New Report Finds Biden’s Immigration Approach Falls Short of Promises
According to a new report released today by Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Biden administration’s approach to people seeking safety not only falls short of expectations but is in urgent…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: OPPOSITION POLITICIAN UNDER HOUSE ARREST (Ethiopia: UA 69.21)
Dawud Ibsa, the chairman of the Oromo Liberation Front, an Ethiopian oppositional political party, has been placed under house arrest in his home in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, since…