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Immigrant rights groups call on governors, health officials to release people in immigration detention
We are coming together to amplify pressure on ICE to act. As states address the public health and humanitarian challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are urging governors to…
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Israeli court sets hearing seeking to lift travel ban on Amnesty campaigner
Laith Abu Zeyad, Amnesty International’s campaigner on Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), a Palestinian living in the occupied West Bank, has been barred from traveling abroad by the Israeli…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Independent Booksellers Tortured by Police (Viet Nam: UA 78.20)
Two members of the Liberal Publishing House – a local independent publisher that sells books considered sensitive by the government – have been detained and tortured by police in Ho…
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Ignored by COVID-19 responses, refugees face starvation worldwide
Lockdowns and movement restrictions have exacerbated dire living conditions, leaving millions of people at risk of starvation and illness.
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GOVERNMENT MUST TAKE STEPS IN TURKEY TO COMBAT RISING HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA
Ahead of the May 17 International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) Amnesty International calls on the government of Turkey to take urgent action to counter the increasing number…
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The Trump administration’s asylum ban was never about public health
The Trump administration must end this racist and hateful policy, which has already sent thousands of people into danger and attacked the fundamental right to seek safety. Racism, xenophobia, and discrimination…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activists Facing Harassment and Intimidation (Angola: UA 71.20)
Members of the non-governmental organization Mission of Beneficence Agriculture of Kubando, Inclusive Technologies and Environment (MBAKITA) are facing harassment and intimidation, including death threats and attacks, in Cuando Cubango province,…
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Supreme Court’s decision in Kyrgyzstan leaves Azimjan Askarov languishing in prison
The conviction of Azimjan Askarov, an ethnic Uzbek wrongly imprisoned for his work documenting tragic ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan in 2010, is a blatant example of the disproportionate prosecution of…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Political Leader Imprisoned for Speech (Algeria: UA 48.20)
On 27 April 2020, the trial of the leader of the opposition Algerian political party, Union Démocratique et Sociale (UDS), Karim Tabbou, was postponed to 1 June 2020 due to…
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END GUN VIOLENCE
DOWNLOAD PDF STAND YOUR GROUND THE PROBLEM Stand-Your-Ground laws raise serious concerns about the protection of the most fundamental human rights: the right to live and the right not to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: University Student at Risk of Torture (Iran: UA 76.20)
Iranian university student Ali Younesi has been arbitrarily detained since 10 April 2020. His family believes he is being held in Tehran’s Evin prison, where he has been denied access…
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Growing Our Movement
Learn more about the world’s largest grassroots human rights organization. Amnesty International USA is a grassroots human rights movement, led by people like you! Since our beginning, activism has…