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Urgent Action Update: Violence Against Protestors Escalates (Honduras: UA 264.17)
At least 20 people have reportedly been killed, hundreds detained and others injured following the violent repression of protests regarding the processing and counting of votes following the presidential elections…
Press Release
Mexico: Amnesty International chief slams interior security law and calls on Mexican president to veto it
Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Salil Shetty, today directed an open letter to Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, calling on the leader to veto the Law on Interior Security that passed…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Palestinian Human Rights Defender Released (Israel/OPT: UA 154.16)
Palestinian human rights defender and media coordinator for prisoners’ rights group Addameer, Hasan Safadi, was released on 7 December from Ketziot Prison in Israel. He spent nearly a year and…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Palestinian Human Rights Defender Released (Israel/OPT: UA 154.16)
Palestinian human rights defender and media coordinator for prisoners’ rights group Addameer, Hasan Safadi, was released on 7 December from Ketziot Prison in Israel. He spent nearly a year and…
Event
Write for Rights and Petition Signing for De-Escalate Washington
Join the International Human Rights Day celebration and potluck at the YWCA, 1026 N. Forest St in Bellingham on Sunday, December 10 from 6-8 pm. Co-sponsored by the Whatcom Human…
Press Release
Revoking Net Neutrality Violates Freedom of Expression
Today the Federal Communications Commission voted to remove the current regulations on network neutrality. Internet service providers (ISPs) can now restrict, block or give preferential access to different internet traffic,…
Press Release
Gulf crisis: Six months on, families still bearing brunt of Qatar political dispute
The lives of thousands of Gulf residents remain in turmoil as a consequence of the ongoing political dispute in the region, said Amnesty International, more than six months after the…
Press Release
El Salvador: Failure to release woman jailed after miscarriage, outrageous step backward for justice
A court’s decision not to release a woman forced to spend a decade behind bars after having a miscarriage in El Salvador is an outrageous step backward for justice, Amnesty…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Women’s Rights Defender Threatened With Death (Haiti: UA 272.17)
Sanièce Petit Phat, a Haitian women and girls’ rights defender, has reported receiving death threats because of her work on behalf of victims of domestic and sexual violence in the…
Report
Kosovo: Compensation for wartime rape survivors, but still no justice
Nearly two decades after thousands of women and girls in Kosovo were systematically raped during the 1998-99 armed conflict, the survivors are about to receive long-awaited recognition and compensation for…
Press Release
Over 40 Members of Congress Urge President Trump to Call on Turkey to Drop Charges Against Taner Kılıç and the Istanbul 10
Over 40 members of Congress recently sent a letter urging President Trump to call on Turkish officials to stop the prosecution of human rights defenders, drop charges against Taner Kılıç…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Killings Of Land Claimant Leaders (Colombia: UA 268.17)
Two land claimant leaders of collective Afro-descendent territories in Curvaradó, Jiguamiandó, Piedeguita and Mancilla in Chocó have been killed by paramilitary groups belonging to the Gaitanistas Self-Defence Forces of Colombia…