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Registered Amnesty Groups
From coast to coast, AIUSA has over 600 Youth and Student Groups! There are several essential tools, resources, and training materials to support your activism and mobilize members of your…
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Panel: Race & The Death Penalty
The program will examine the history of executions in America and how discrimination bleeds into the entire criminal justice system. It traces a line from lynchings of old --- killings…
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Urgent Action: Kazakh Family at Risk of Torture in Detention (China: UA 4.21)
Weilina Muhatai and her two sons, Muheyati Haliyoula and Parisati Haliyoula, have been missing since August 2020. As ethnic Kazakhs living in China’s Xinjiang region, their possible detention is thought…
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Urgent Action Update: Thirteen Federal Executions in Six Months (USA: UA 26.20)
Three people, including one woman, were executed in the last week of the Trump administration, bringing the total number of federal executions carried out in the last six months to…
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Welcomes Rejoining of World Health Organization and Urges Biden Administration to Prioritize COVID-19 Vaccines for Those Most at Risk, Across the World
Responding to Executive Order XX, ceasing withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO) and signed today by President Joe Biden, Interim Executive Director of Amnesty International USA Bob Goodfellow said:
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Human Rights Challenges Remain in Biden Executive Actions on Restoring the Right to Seek Safety in the U.S.
Responding to executive actions signed by United States President Joe Biden today on termination of border wall construction, rescission of interior enforcement policies and the Muslim and the African bans,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Lack of Oxygen to Treat Patients in Manaus (Brazil: UA 5.21)
Manaus, the capital of the Amazonas State, is facing a health crisis due to a spike in COVID-19 infections coupled with what health workers, media outlets and state officials have…
Press Release
Government Report Reinforces That Cruelty Drove Family Separations
Responding to a report finding that the Department of Justice – and in particular then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions – was a driving force behind the family separation policy that intentionally…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Two Years of Arbitrary Detention of 16 People (Mozambique: UA 78.19)
17 January marks two years that fifteen asylum seekers and refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and one refugee from Ethiopia, have been arbitrarily detained in Pemba, northeast…
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Urgent Action Update: Execution Risk for Iranian-Swedish Academic (Iran: UA 38.17)
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been held incommunicado in Tehran’s Evin prison since 24 November 2020, when he learned that his death sentence for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) was…
Press Release
Mayors and Governors Must Protect People from Armed Groups, Denounce White Supremacy
In response to the events of last week and in anticipation of more gatherings by white supremacists ahead of the inauguration, Amnesty International USA has sent a letter to 3,500…
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Urgent Action Update: Lengthy Imprisonment for Retired Uyghur Doctor (China: UA 88.20)
Retired Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in a secret trial for “taking part in organized terrorism, aiding terrorist activities and seriously disrupting social order” in…