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Take Action in Your Community
There are many ways you can get involved with Amnesty International USA in your own community. You can start or join an activist group, lead or join virtual activism online,…
Report
Tech giants are complicit in industrial- scale repression in Viet Nam
Tech giants Facebook and YouTube are allowing themselves to become tools of the Vietnamese authorities’ censorship and harassment of its population, in an alarming sign of how these companies could…
Press Release
Write for Rights: A chance for governments to stand up for humanity
Amnesty International today launches the world’s biggest human rights campaign, Write for Rights, calling on governments to put right injustices against individuals who are detained or persecuted in countries across…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Austrian-Iranian Prisoner at Risk (Iran: UA 162.20)
Massud Mossaheb, a 73-year-old Austrian-Iranian dual national, is serving a 10-year prison term imposed after a grossly unfair trial for vague national security offenses. He is being held in Tehran’s…
Update
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL , CIVICUS AND TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL CALL ON G20 TO ENSURE BETTER POST COVID ECONOMIC FUTURE THROUGH A JUST RECOVERY
Amnesty International, CIVICUS and Transparency International call on G20 Finance Ministers to take concrete for just post COVID future through a just recovery by providing transparent and sustainable international assistance,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activist’s Sentence Increased to 15 Years (Iran: UA 156.20)
Azerbaijani Turkic activist, Abbas Lesani, arbitrarily imprisoned in Ardabil prison, Ardabil province, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by an appeal court after a grossly unfair trial. The appeal…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Bahraini Youth Targeted in Family Retaliation (Bahrain: UA 143.20)
Kameel Juma Hasan, a Bahraini secondary school student, has been imprisoned in retaliation against him and his family after he and his mother refused to become informants and his mother…
Update
AIUSA Israel, UAE, Bahrain letter to Trump
President Donald J. Trump 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington DC 20500 Re: Amnesty International urges President Trump to raise human rights concerns in meetings with Bahrain Foreign Minister Dr.…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Russian Doctor’s Persecution Continues (Russian Federation: UA 77.20)
Doctor Tatyana Revva, employed in a hospital in Kalach-on-Don, southern Russia, continues to face reprisals for exposing personal protective equipment (PPE) shortages and other issues with the COVID-19 pandemic. She…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Justice for Gender-Based Violence Survivor (Mozambique: UA 130.20)
On 12 June, the 2nd Criminal Appeal Section of the Judicial Court of Maputo’s City overturned the decision that found the aggressor of Women Human Rights Defender, Josina Machel, guilty…
Press Release
#StandWithOhio: Coalition Launches National Campaign To Demand Ohio Gov. DeWine Reject Stand Your Ground Law
Today, a coalition of eight advocacy organizations launched a nationwide campaign calling on Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to clearly and explicitly reject proposed ‘Stand Your Ground’ legislation in Ohio.
Press Release
New Report Finds Law Enforcement Violated Black Lives Matter Protesters’ Human Rights, Documents Acts of Police Violence and Excessive Force
Today, Amnesty International USA released a report documenting widespread and egregious human rights violations by police officers against protesters, medics, journalists and legal observers who gathered to protest the unlawful…
