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Credit: Eliana Rodgers A migrant is confronted by mass surveillance at a border crossing and is reminded of his uncertain future. Activists work to resist these systems.

Press Release

Global: Amnesty International Publishes an Introduction to Defending the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in the Digital Age

Technology developments in asylum and migration management systems becoming key human rights concern; have discriminatory impact on refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.

February 5, 2024

Surveillance Camera and barbed wire, border, prison — (AlxeyPnferov/ iStock via Getty Images Plus)

Report

Defending the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in the Digital Age

Digital technology interventions are increasingly shaping and delivering the migration management and asylum policies of states.

February 5, 2024

Press Release

Amnesty International USA Supports Legislation that Ensures U.S. Support and Protections for Human Rights Defenders Around the World

The Human Rights Defenders Protection Act of 2024 is a critical piece of legislation that will help strengthen and improve the U.S. government’s ability to support human rights defenders around the world.

January 31, 2024

What appears to be the Huitong 78 is visible at the former Puma Energy terminal in Thilawa, Myanmar, offloading jet fuel. © 2024 Planet Labs, inc.

Press Release

Myanmar: New Data Suggests Military Still Importing Fuel for Deadly Air Strikes Despite Sanctions

The best way to stop the Myanmar military from carrying out lethal air strikes is to stop all jet fuel imports into the country.

January 31, 2024

Press Release

Israel/OPT: States Must Reverse Cruel Decision to Withdraw UNRWA Funding

Suspending funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency will deal a devastating blow to more than two million refugees in the occupied Gaza Strip for whom the organization serves as a sole lifeline.

January 29, 2024

Press Release

Israel Must Comply with Key ICJ Ruling Ordering it Do All in its Power to Prevent Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza

Today’s decision by the International Court of Justice is an important step that could help protect the Palestinian people in the occupied Gaza Strip from further suffering and irreparable harm.

January 26, 2024

Press Release

Amnesty International USA Condemns Alabama’s Execution of Kenneth Smith, Calls for Moratorium on Use of the Death Penalty as First Critical Step

The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and accounts of Kenneth Smith’s last moments simply show that there is no humane way to take someone’s life.

January 26, 2024

Tanks and towers of chemical refinery along Houston Ship Channel at sunrise. — (Ed Lallo/Getty)

Press Release

United States: Lives Devastated and Human Rights Sacrificed by Fossil Fuel-related Pollution from Petrochemicals Plants in Texas and Louisiana

People living close to the Houston Ship Channel are breathing toxic substances, linked to a wide range of illnesses, emitted by facilities that flout regulations and release pollutants into the environment.

January 25, 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)

Report

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 the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.

January 25, 2024