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Urgent Action: UN EXPERTS ALARMED OVER IMPUNITY IN CHILE (Chile 91.23)
Share: On This Page On November 27, 2023, UN special rapporteurs on peaceful assembly and association and on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions publicly called on Chilean authorities to “advance…
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Urgent Action: UNJUSTLY HELD STUDENT DENIED PROSTHETIC LEG (Egypt 110.23)
Oqba Hashad has been arbitrarily detained without trial for over four years and six months solely for his brother’s human rights activism. Security forces subjected him to enforced disappearance for…
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Urgent Action: VENEZUELAN DETAINEES’ LIFE AT RISK (Venezuela 96.23)
Emirlendris Benítez is a 42-year-old mother and tradeswoman who was arbitrarily detained in August 2018 and subjected to torture. Guillermo Zárraga is a 59-year-old engineer and former oil industry unionist…
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COP28 Agreement to Move Away from Fossil Fuels Sets Precedent but Falls Short of Safeguarding Human Rights
COP28 in Dubai has agreed on the need to move away from fossil fuels for the first time at the end of a climate summit marred by restrictions on civil…
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Urgent Action: ARTIST SENTENCED TO SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON (Russia 36.22)
On November 16, 2023 Aleksandra Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for “disseminating knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces”. In March 2022, Aleksandra Skochilenko had replaced…
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Venture Capital Firms Funding Generative Artificial Intelligence Ignoring Duty to Protect Human Rights
Surveys with the ten largest venture capital funds and two largest start-up accelerators investing in Generative AI companies revealed hardly any were taking steps to safeguard human rights.
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Celebrating the Human Rights Wins of 2023
Although human rights are being gravely undermined in numerous countries across the world, Amnesty International’s supporters and activists have shown that change is always possible.
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Recognizing the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This week, we recognize the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, upholding dignity, equality, and justice for all. [video width="1080" height="1080" mp4="/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Amnesty-UDHR75_-Square_Final.mp4"][/video] This year marks the 75th…
![These children of United Nations staff members are getting a closer look at the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is two years old on 10 December. All nations in the world have been invited to set aside 10 December of every year as Human Rights Day and through programs in schools and community centers to pay hommage to the principles of freedom and of the dignity of men...01 December 1950..United Nations (Lake Success), New York..Photo # 123898](/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/255301-300x298.jpg)
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Amnesty International Launches Annual Letter-Writing Campaign Amid Clampdown on Human Rights
Amnesty International is launching its annual global letter-writing campaign ahead of Human Rights Day on December 10, in a bid to transform the lives of people whose rights have been…
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Congress Urged to Not Gut Asylum System
Amnesty International responds to Congress and the White House negotiating the inclusion of nationwide expedited removal and a gutting of the U.S. asylum system in the federal supplemental funding bill.
![A migrant family watches the sunset while waiting to be accounted for and taken to a border patrol processing facility after crossing the Rio Grande into the U.S. on June 21, 2021 in La Joya, Texas. A surge of mostly Central American immigrants crossing into the United States has challenged U.S. immigration agencies along the U.S. Southern border.](/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/GettyImages-1324817301-300x200.jpg)
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Generation 2048: Time to Resist, Disrupt and Transform
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Born from the ashes of World War II under the shadow of the very worst of humanity,…
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Lebanon: Deadly Attack by Israeli Authorities on Journalists Must be Investigated as a War Crime
Israeli strikes a group of seven journalists in south Lebanon on 13 October, which killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six others.
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