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Disappearances and torture in southern Yemen detention facilities must be investigated as war crimes
Justice remains elusive a year after a network of secret prisons was first exposed in southern Yemen, Amnesty International said in a new report today that documents egregious violations going…
Press Release
Executive Order Imprisons Families Indefinitely, Inflicts Further Harm on Children
President Trump signed an executive order today mandating for children to stay with their parents in detention while their asylum claims are processed. This executive order seeks to modify the…
Update
Human Rights on Capitol Hill: June 18, 2018
In this edition of Human Rights on Capitol Hill: (1)Â Â Â Family separation: Amnesty International demands that administration immediately halt family separation. (2)Â Â Â North Korea:Â Amnesty International calls on Trump administration to raise human…
Event
DINNER WITH LUCIO AND OBSERVANCE OF WORLD REFUGEE DAY
We first will enjoy camaraderie and food between 6 and 6:45 pm and then hear Maria Cuerda, who has worked with immigrants in Springfield for many years, discuss why so…
Event
DINNER WITH LUCIO AND OBSERVANCE OF WORLD REFUGEE DAY
We first will enjoy camaraderie and food between 6 and 6:45 pm and then hear Maria Cuerda, who has worked with immigrants in Springfield for many years, discuss why so…
Update
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SENATE BRIEFING STATEMENT – TURKEY TARGETING MEDIA AND CIVIL SOCIETY (MAY 16, 2018)
On May 16, Amnesty International co-hosted a briefing on human rights and religious freedom in Turkey. The briefing was cosponsored by the Senate Human Rights Caucus co-chairs Sen. Thom Tillis…
Update
North Korea: Joint Letter to President Trump regarding North Korea Human Rights
Joint Letter to President Trump regarding North Korea Human Rights The United States should press for human rights issues to be included in all discussions with the Democratic People’s Republic…
Press Release
Separating asylum-seeking families violates international law
The U.S. government must stop separating asylum-seeking parents from their children and denying them access to asylum procedures through prolonged detention, said Amnesty International today in response to reports of…
Report
Egypt: The use of indefinite solitary confinement against prisoners amounts to torture
“The first time I saw Hisham after his arrest was in hospital. He described his solitary cell to me. He could not see anything in the darkness of the cell.…
Update
Amnesty Statement to HFAC: EU Governments are Complicit in Refugee Suffering
Since 2016, European governments implemented a series of measures designed to shut down the Mediterranean Sea routes used by refugees, and outsource their border controls to neighboring countries, most notably…
Press Release
Vietnam: New research reveals almost 100 prisoners of conscience as crackdown on dissent intensifies
There are at least 97 prisoners of conscience languishing in jails in Vietnam, many of whom are kept incommunicado in squalid conditions and routinely subjected to torture or other ill-treatment,…
Press Release
SYRIA: Seven years of catastrophic failure by the international community
To mark the seventh anniversary of the Syria conflict, Amnesty International is calling for the international community to assume its responsibilities and urgently act to end the suffering of millions…
