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Amnesty International Policy Recommendations on Technology and Human Rights
On June 3, 2021, Amnesty International USA wrote to the Biden administration to outline the organization's policy recommendations that address the risks posed by emerging technology and the surveillance-based business…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Free Trans Woman from Indefinite Detention (USA: UA 67.21)
Maura, a transgender woman, has spent half her life living in the United States of America. Years ago, she sought safety in the US after experiencing relentless transphobic violence in…
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Urgent Action: HALT THE IMMINENT EXECUTION OF YOUNG SAUDI (Saudi Arabia: UA 65.21)
Mustafa al-Darwish, a young Saudi Arabian man, is at high risk of being executed imminently after his case was referred to the Presidency of State Security and his death sentence…
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Urgent Action Update: INDIGENOUS ACTIVISTS STILL MISSING (Honduras: UA 123.20)
A group of individuals wearing police vests, took Garífuna activists Alberth Centeno Tomas, Suami Mejía García, Gerardo Rochez Cálix, and Milton Martínez Álvarez from their homes on July 18, 2020.…
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Urgent Action: Human Rights Defender in Danger (Haiti: UA 56.21)
Milostène Castin is a defender of the rights of subsistence farmers who have suffered land seizures, displacement, corruption and violent attacks in north-eastern Haiti. Due to his activism, Mr. Castin…
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Urgent Action: TORTURED PROTESTERS JAILED UNJUSTLY (Iran: UA 66.21)
Iranian brothers Vahid Afkari and Habib Afkari are being subjected to renewed torture and other ill-treatment in Adelabad prison in Shiraz. Since September 2020, they have been held in windowless…
Report
Governments Must Stop Conniving with Fossil Fuel Industries to Burn Our Rights
The world’s richest governments are effectively condemning millions of people to starvation, drought and displacement through their continued support of the fossil fuel industry, Amnesty International said today. The organization’s…
Event
Amnesty International Seattle Virtual Write for Rights Event – June 26 2021
Join us to write letters in support of human rights! Amnesty International Seattle will be hosting a virtual Write for Rights event on June 26th. It runs from 6pm to…
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Grassroots Advocacy Library
Amnesty International USA’s grassroots advocates raise human rights priorities with Members of Congress. Use this library to learn about pressing human rights issues in Congress and how to lobby your…
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Urgent Action: HUNDREDS STILL DISAPPEARED FIVE YEARS ON (Iraq: UA 59.21)
At least 643 men and boys from Anbar governorate in central Iraq have been missing for five years since their abduction by the Popular Mobilization Units, a state-affiliated armed group,…
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Urgent Action: Engineer Arrested for Facebook Post (Bangladesh: UA 60.21)
Shahnewaz Chowdhury, a Bangladeshi engineer and activist, could face up to 10 years in prison for sharing his personal opinion on Facebook. Expressing his belief that a coal-fired power plant…
Press Release
Surveillance city: NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has the ability to track people in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx by running images from 15,280 surveillance cameras into invasive and discriminatory…
