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Trump Administration’s Refusal to Cooperate with President-Elect Biden is Worsening COVID-19 Human Rights Crisis
As the U.S. tops 250,000 deaths from COVID-19 today and President Trump continues to reject cooperation with President-Elect Biden’s team on the pandemic, Amnesty International USA Interim Executive Director Bob…
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Immigrant Children and Attorneys’ Plea: Stop Family Deportations
Dilley, TX and Leesport, PA - This weekend, the Trump Administration could move to deport 28 children with their parents, in one of its last immoral immigration acts that shock…
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Letter to Acting Secretary of Defense Miller
The Honorable Christopher Miller Acting Secretary Department of Defense 1000 Defense Pentagon Washington, DC 20301-1000 RE:Amnesty International USA calls for halt to domestic deployments of military forces in…
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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…
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“Don’t Forget These Children”: Families Belong Together Reminds Lawmakers Children Still Separated
On Monday, November 16, 2020, Families Belong Together — a national coalition fighting to permanently end family separation and incarceration under the U.S. immigration system — will hold an action…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Human Rights Defender Sentenced to Prison (Azerbaijan: UA 45.20)
Azerbaijani human rights defender Elchin Mammad was sentenced to four years in prison on 14 October. He was arrested on 30 March on trumped up charges of theft and illegal…
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Amnesty International Calls on DHS Not to Deploy Agents to Possible Election-Related Protests
Today, Amnesty International USA preemptively called on DHS not to deploy its agents to possible election-related protests. Our letter is below and available in PDF form here. November 13,…
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Violence and Incitement Trends Are Particularly Worrying Following the US Election
In the wake of the US election, social media platforms such as Facebook are seeing a dramatic increase in violent content, including posts that seek to incite others to commit…
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Youth Activism
Across the world, young people have always been at the forefront of social change – and student activism is at the heart of our work at Amnesty International. In 1961,…
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Passage of California’s Prop 22 is a devastating blow to the rights of app-based workers
The passage of Proposition 22 in California is a blow to the rights of gig workers, effectively stripping them of the state’s minimum wage guarantee, paid sick leave, and other…
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More than 1,000 people arrested in Belarus in a single day of peaceful protests
Responding to the arrest of more than 1,000 people in a single day of peaceful protest in Minsk and other Belarusian cities, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe…
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AIUSA Letter to SFRC on 2021 International Human Rights Priorities
On November 9, 2020, Amnesty International USA addressed a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee outlining the organization's international human rights priorities for 2021. Click here to read the…