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President Biden Must Condemn Systematic Human Rights Violations During Presidential Visit to the Middle East
President Joe Biden must fulfill his promise to put human rights at the centre of his first visit to the Middle East and North Africa since taking office and do…
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Critical Thinking Under Fire: Upholding Academic Freedom in the Classroom: Panel Discussion and Q&A
Across the globe efforts are intensifying to censor study of controversial issues, notably those dealing with the study of racism and cultural diversity in public education. Providing education on these…
Press Release
Release Jailed Wuhan Activist ‘Close to Death’ After Hunger Strike
A Chinese citizen journalist jailed for reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan is at risk of dying if she is not urgently released to receive…
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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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Banned Books Week 2021
BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2021 Each year during Banned Books Week, Amnesty International draws attention to people around the world who have been imprisoned, threatened, or murdered because of their writing,…
Event
Group 113 (Chicago) presents Livestream Concert with Dylan Connor!
Join Group 113 (Chicago) at 8:00 PM EDT on May 22 for our second Facebook Livestream concert with singer-songwriter Dylan Connor. Dylan is the faculty advisor for the AIUSA student…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Cartoonist Tortured; Writer Dies in Jail (Bangladesh: UA 29.21)
Cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore and writer Mushtaq Ahmed were detained in May 2020 for posting on Facebook satirical cartoons and comments critical of the Bangladeshi government’s response to the COVID-19…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Trial Delay for Detained Australian-Chinese Writer (China: UA 98.20)
Yang Hengjun was scheduled to stand trial in January 2021. However, the reasons of the delay have not made known to the public, and his trial has been delayed by…
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December 9 Testimony for House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on International Human Rights and Closing Civic Space
On December 8, 2020, Amnesty International USA's National Director of Advocacy and Government Relations Joanne Lin submitted her written testimony ahead of House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global…
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…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Life Imprisonment for Missing Kazakh Writer (China: UA 63.20)
Ethnic Kazakh writer Nagyz Muhammed has been convicted of “separatism” for gathering with his friends on Kazakhstan Independence Day, expressing opinions on Xinjiang’s “bilingual education” policy and encouraging Kazakhs living…
Event
The Death Penalty: Ineffective, Irreversible and Immoral
Please join us for a critical conversation on the World Day Against the Death Penalty. Featuring: Kevin Cooper, Artist, Writer and Abolitionist, currently on Death Row, San Quentin (phoning into…
