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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – December 2021 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured Human Rights Day What’s Coming Down the Pike Welcome News DECEMBER 2021 NEWSLETTER Featured: Tigray and Ethiopia: One Year After the…
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Survivors Describe Killings, Mass Displacement and Terror Amid Fighting in Western Equatoria, South Sudan
Dozens of civilians in South Sudan were killed and tens of thousands displaced amid fighting between armed groups in Western Equatoria state from June to October this year, Amnesty International…
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Syria
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Urgent Action: PROSECUTORS MUST INVESTIGATE TORTURE (Mexico: UA 122.21)
On August 3, 2021, José Eduardo Ravelo died from multiple internal injuries, after telling his mother the police had tortured him in detention days before in Mérida, state of Yucatán.…
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New Report Finds Twitter Continues to Fall Short on Protecting Women Online
Twitter is still not doing enough to protect women and non-binary users from online violence and abuse, new analysis from Amnesty International found.
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Urgent Action: PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS JAILED FOR ‘DEFAMATION’ (Democratic Republic of Congo: UA 117.21)
Activists Claude Lwaboshi Buhazi (32), Faustin Ombeni Tulinabo (26) and Serge Mikindo Waso (33), members of the citizen movement, Jicho la Raiya (The Eye of the Citizens) were arrested on…
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Joint Letter: The U.S. Must Comply with the Convention against Torture
On December 1, 2021, Amnesty International USA and eight other human rights organizations wrote to the Biden administration to express deep concerns about reports that the U.S. government has submitted…
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Unbridled Destruction of Freedoms in Myanmar as Aung San Suu Kyi SentencedÂ
In response to the sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns Ming Yu Hah said: “The harsh sentences handed…
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Survivors of Gender-Based Violence Abandoned Following Taliban Takeover
Essential services for women and girl survivors of gender-based violence in Afghanistan have been decimated following the Taliban’s takeover of the country, Amnesty International said today.
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Biden Administration Continues to Fail Asylum-Seekers as Title 42 is Extended
Citing concerns over the new Omicron variant, today officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced an extension to Title 42, a clause in public health law…
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Voices of the Death Penalty
AIUSA’s Dallas Local Group and Texas State Death Penalty Abolition Coordinator, Rick Halperin, invite you to join Voices of the Death Penalty, December 11th at 12:30pm ET/11:30am CT/9:30am PT. This…
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Vigil for BK16 at Indian Consulate on Friday, 12/10
Amnesty's Local Group 26 in New York has taken on the case of the BK16 and would like to invite anyone in the NYC area to participate in a Vigil…