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Haiti: Authorities must avoid excessive use of force during protests
In response to the violence in Haiti following the Petrocaribe protests, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said:
Press Release
US government endangers asylum seekers with unlawful policies
Unlawful US border policies are leaving thousands of asylum seekers stranded in Mexico, where they are facing threats of deportation to their countries of origin, where they potentially face serious…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Opposition Youth Leader Still Detained One Year On (Democratic Republic of Congo: UA 197.18)
Opposition youth leader Christian Lumu Lukusa has been in arbitrary detention since 22 November 2017, when he was arrested in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). He was arrested…
Event
AIUSA Group 48 Portland Write for Rights Letter-Writing Holiday Party
Write for Rights Holiday Party! Join Amnesty International Portland (Group 48) for our annual Write for Rights holiday event. We’ll write letters to stand in solidarity with and free human…
Event
Holiday Write for Rights Party!
Saturday Dec 8th 2018 10:00AM-1:00 PM (set up starts at 9:00AM) Write for Rights Party! Please join us before the holidays for our annual December letter-writing party in honor of…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Workers Arrested for Trying to Set Up Trade Union (China: UA 200.18)
Three factory workers and an NGO worker have been arrested for attempting to set up a trade union in China. In addition to restricted access to their lawyers, the four…
Report
Papua New Guinea: Australian and PNG leaders must act urgently to save lives on Manus Island
The misery of indefinite detention in Papua New Guinea (PNG) is pushing increasing numbers of refugees and people seeking asylum to suicide attempts and self-harm, a new report by the…
Event
Amnesty International Ithaca’s Write for Rights celebration – Dec. 1, 2018
Please join us on December 1st to write and sign letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders in Iran, Morocco, India, and more. We will provide…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activists’ Whereabouts Unknown After Arrest (Democratic Republic of Congo: UA 196.18)
Activists Arsene Katolo, Alain Muwaka, Oto Shaminga, Heritier Losomba, Miko Booto, Enoch Muanda and Mwanza are being held incommunicado at an unknown location in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).…
Press Release
Syria: Thousands of digital activists to track how US-led air strikes destroyed Raqqa
Thousands of digital activists around the world will take part in an innovative new crowdsourcing data project Amnesty International is launching today, which uses satellite imagery to help plot how…
Press Release
Twenty-Nine Families Ordered Released from Dilley Detention Center
In an extraordinary move, twenty-nine families seeking a better life have been ordered released from the South Texas Family Residential Center in the town of Dilley, including Gloria and her…
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Reports of torture and sexual harassment of detained activists in Saudi Arabia
Several Saudi Arabian activists, including a number of women, who have been arbitrarily detained without charge since May 2018 in Saudi Arabia’s Dhahban Prison, have reportedly faced sexual harassment, torture…
