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Urgent Action Update: ARBITRARILY DETAINED LAWYER DENIED HEALTH CARE (Egypt: UA 190.18)
Arbitrarily detained Egyptian human rights lawyer Hoda Abdelmoniem is standing trial by the Emergency State Security Court on bogus charges stemming from her human rights work. On October 11, 2021,…
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#WelcomeWithDignity Denounces Biden Administration’s Expansion of MPP, Calls for this Unlawful and Cruel Policy to be Ended Once and For All
Today the Biden administration announced it will restart and expand the implementation of the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as ‘Remain in Mexico’, with the willing cooperation of the…
Press Release
Biden Must Deliver COVID-19 WTO TRIPS Waiver at WTO Ministerial, Say Members of Congress, Health, Labor, Human Rights and Faith Leaders at Press Conference as Dozens of Civil Society Groups Deliver Three Million Petitions to Biden Administration
Today members of Congress joined health, labor, faith and development leaders in a press conference urging President Joe Biden to deliver on his pledge to remove intellectual property barriers that…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: UNJUSTLY DETAINED STUDENTS HARSHLY BEATEN (Iran: UA 76.20)
Iranian university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi, arbitrarily detained without trial in section 209 of Tehran’s Evin prison since April 10, 2020, are at risk of being convicted in…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: UNLAWFUL EXECUTION SET FOR MALAYSIAN NATIONAL (Singapore: UA 109.21)
The authorities of Singapore have set the execution of Malaysian national Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam for November 10, 2021. In violation of international law and standards, he was sentenced to the…
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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – October 2021 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured U.S. Reproductive Rights International Updates In Case You Missed It Latest Amnesty International Reports OCTOBER 2021 NEWSLETTER Featured: Haitian Asylum Seekers…
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2021 Virtual Activism Conference
Amnesty International USA is excited to be hosting the 2021 Virtual Activism Conference. The theme is Together for Our Future – 60 years of uniting action-takers and change-makers. Dates: October…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: THREAT TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS (Dominican Republic: UA 36.21)
With the beginning of the new parliamentary term, a preliminary draft of the Criminal Code is being debated by the Dominican Republic’s Congress with the objective of approving a reformed…
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Emma Green
Emma M. Green (she/her) is a youth human rights activist, writer, and researcher. She joined Amnesty International on the rural campus of Ohio Northern University in 2017. Since then, she…
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#WelcomeWithDignity Expresses Steadfast Solidarity with Haitians
Today, the #WelcomeWithDignity campaign expressed its disgust with Customs and Border Protection’s treatment of Haitian people seeking asylum at Del Rio, Texas. The campaign joined dozens of other national organizations and expressed steadfast solidarity with Haitian…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: SHAMAN CHALLENGES INDEFINITE HOSPITALIZATION (Russian Federation: UA 98.21)
On September 23, 2021 the Supreme Court of Sakha (Yakutia), will consider shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev’s appeal against the decision to confine him to psychiatric hospital. Meanwhile he is in pretrial…
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Access to abortion is a human right
An abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. It is a basic healthcare need for millions of women, girls and people who can become pregnant. Worldwide, an estimated…
