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UK: Big Tech Platforms Play an Active Role in Fueling Racist Violence

Big Tech platforms must be held accountable for their role in fueling racism and violence.

August 6, 2024

LOUISVILLE, KY - SEPTEMBER 05: Women stand in the street recording as right-wing activists march to the Louisville Metro Hall on September 5, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. Ahead of the Kentucky Derby, demonstrators clashed over recent looting and destruction in the area and the death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro police officers during a no-knock raid at her apartment on March 13, 2020. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) — (Brandon Bell/Getty)

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Renewing Our Commitment to Justice and Equality on Juneteenth

Amnesty International USA stands in solidarity with Black Americans on Juneteenth in the ongoing struggle for justice and equality.

June 18, 2024

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Amnesty International USA Statement on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

The struggle against racial injustice must confront not only individual policies but also the underlying structures that uphold them, recognizing…

March 21, 2024

Members of a presidential committee began a conference yesterday with business and industrial leaders to map plans for carrying out President Eisenhower's 10-year, 50 billion dollar highway construction program. Looking over a chart (from left): S. Sloan Colt, president of Bankers Trust Company of New York; William A. Roberts, president of Allis Chalmers Company, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; General Lucius D. Clay, chairman of the president's committee on the National Highway Program; Stephen Bechtel, president of the Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco; and David Beck, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Seattle, Washington. — (Bettmann/Getty Images)

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Roads and Race: How the Highway System Symbolizes Racial Injustice in America

By Terrance Sullivan, Director of Racial Justice, Amnesty International USA The roads are racist. Well, the roads themselves do not…

February 20, 2024

Industry along the Houston Ship Channel seen in an aerial view shot on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, in Houston. ( Smiley N. Pool / Houston Chronicle ) (Photo by Smiley N. Pool/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images) — (Smiley N. Pool/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

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The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA

Amnesty International’s report shows the harms suffered by local communities from pollution being emitted by petrochemical plants and refineries along…

January 25, 2024

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ICJ Hearings Over Israel’s Alleged Breaches of the Genocide Convention a Vital Step to Help Protect Palestinian Civilians

The International Court of Justice proceedings on a South Africa legal case alleging that the state of Israel is breaching…

January 10, 2024