Filter by
Showing 2341-2352 of 11258 Results
Update
Human Rights on Capitol Hill Newsletter – September Edition (9/9/2019)
For PDF version click here: Human Rights on Capitol Hill September Human Rights on Capitol Hill published by Amnesty International USA September 9, 2019 In this edition of Human Rights…
Press Release
Bolivian Government Must Suspend Presidential Decree and Investigate Causes of Forest Fires
In an open letter published today, Amnesty International called on the government of President Evo Morales to suspend the July decree that authorized “controlled burns” to extend the agricultural frontier,…
![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GettyImages-1164670359-300x202.jpg)
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activist Detained a Year Without Trial (Viet Nam: UA 117.19)
Đoàn Thị Hồng was unlawfully arrested in September 2018 and has been detained without trial. Held incommunicado for eleven months, her family were finally able to meet with her on…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Activist Released on Bail, Still Facing Charges (Senegal: UA 109.19)
Senegalese activist Guy Marius Sagna was released on bail on 16 August, one month after he was first detained for posting comments on Facebook. Charged with ‘false alert of terrorism’’…
Update
Amnesty International USA Supports Challenge to Indefinite Detention of Children and Families
Following newly announced regulations that would provide for the indefinite detention of families and children and eviscerate basic protections contained in the 1997 Flores settlement, Amnesty International USA and Human Rights…
Press Release
Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Offenders in South Africa Must Face Justice
In response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s address to the nation and hundreds who had gathered in Cape Town to protest against soaring gender-based violence and femicide rates in the country,…
![](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/GettyImages-1166065869-300x200.jpg)
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Deported Mother Allowed to Return to Family (Argentina: UA 39.19)
Vanessa Gómez Cueva, a Peruvian mother of three who was deported seven months ago from Argentina with her 2-year-old son and forced to leave her other two children behind, received…
Press Release
Killing of Afghani Human Rights Defender Is A War Crime
Responding to the news that Abdul Samad Amiri, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission’s acting director in Ghor province, was kidnapped and killed by the Taliban, Amnesty International’s South Asia…
![](https://www.amnestyusa.org/wp-content/themes/amnestyusa/assets/images/default-image.png)
Page
Amnesty International – Banned Books Week 2019
Each year during Banned Books Week the American Library Association (ALA) calls attention to books that have been challenged in US Libraries. At the same time Amnesty International groups draw…
Page
Banned Books Week 2019
Nguyen Van Hoa
VIETNAM - ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTER / CATHOLIC ADVOCATE & VLOGGER SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS - TORTURED TO CONFESS Nguyen Van Hoa is a young Catholic vlogger from Ha Tinh province who…
Page
Banned Books Week 2019
Ahmet Altan
NOVELIST & JOURNALIST DETAINED SINCE 2016 & FACING UP TO 15 YEARS - TURKEY Journalist, editor, and novelist Ahmet Altan was swept up in the wave of arrests that followed…
Page
Banned Books Week 2019
Loujain Al-Hathloul
SAUDI ARABIA DETAINED SINCE MAY 2018 Loujain al-Hathloul is one of the most prominent and outspoken women human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia; much of her activism is conducted via…