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Urgent Action: STOP PUNISHING WOMEN PROTESTERS (Afghanistan 112.23)
Share: On This Page Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, women protesting Taliban’s draconian policies have been forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily arrested, and detained and subjected to torture…
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Amnesty International Delivers Thousands of Petitions to Alabama Governor, Asking Her to Grant Clemency to Rocky Myers and Commute His Death Sentence
The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. With a swipe of her pen, Governor Ivey could end the injustice that has tarnished Rocky Myers’ case for…
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Amnesty International USA Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
The struggle against racial injustice must confront not only individual policies but also the underlying structures that uphold them, recognizing the inherent links between them and leverage that foundational understanding…
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Global: COP29 Climate Summit in Azerbaijan Must Put Human Rights at its Core
COP29 must focus on vastly scaling up targets for climate finance, primarily from states that have been the largest historical emitters of greenhouse gases and others in a position to…
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Atrocity Survivors in Ethiopia Remain Without Justice
An atrocity determination without meaningful policy change that addresses the pervasive cycle of impunity in Ethiopia isn’t worth much to victims and survivors of these crimes.
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Saudi Arabia: Repressive Draft Penal Code Shatters Illusions of Progress and Reform
Amnesty International's analysis of the leaked draft code reveals it is essentially a manifesto for repression that would entrench human rights violations and suppress freedoms.
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Russia/Ukraine: A Decade of Suppressing Non-Russian Identities in Occupied Crimea
Russia must end its practices of suppression and eradication of non-Russian identities in the territories it occupies and stop its violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.
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One Amnesty: Amnesty International Section Directors Attend AIUSA’s Annual General Meeting
By Raina Fox, Consultant, Amnesty International USA Fourteen Amnesty International (AI) Section Directors and leaders from around the world, as well as AI Secretary General Agnès Callamard, and Senior Director…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: DROP CHARGES AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER (Gambia 40.22)
In May 2022, the Gambian President accused human rights defender, Madi Jobarteh, of being a “troublemaker” who wants to bring violence into the country. Since then, he has been receiving…
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Urgent Action: CHILD CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTIVIST INTIMIDATED IN HER HOME (Ecuador 18.24)
14-year-old climate activist, Leonela Moncayo, reported that on February 26, there was an explosion outside her home caused by an improvised explosive device. This happened five days after Leonela was…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE ARBITRARILY DETAINED JUDGE (Yemen 16.24)
Abdulwahab Mohammad Qatran, a Yemeni judge critical of the Huthi de facto authorities, was arbitrarily arrested by members of the Huthi security and intelligence service who broke into his house…
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Urgent Action: TORTURED MAN FACING PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTION (Iran 107.23)
Kurdish man Reza Rasaei, from the Yaresan religious minority, is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising after the Supreme Court rejected a request…