Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/americas.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009111814119&lang=e President Barack Obama has acknowledged that his administration will not meet his deadline for the closure of the military facility in Cuba. 2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091118001&lang=e Tens of thousands of children in Haiti -- most of them girls -- are working as domestic servants in conditions that amount to slavery, Amnesty International said in a briefing Tuesday, ahead of Universal Children?s Day (Friday, Nov. 20). The human rights organization is launching a campaign to press the government of Haiti to protect child workers from abuse and exploitation. 2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=haiti http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091118002&lang=e Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA executive director, issued the following statement in response to President Barack Obama's remarks that the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will not be closed by his January 22, 2010, deadline. 2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091116003&lang=e Since it takes more than a Twitter post to free a prisoner of conscience, tens of thousands of human rights activists around the world will participate in Amnesty International?s eighth annual Global Write-a-thon from December 5-13. 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009111614061&lang=e The Obama administration should revise its detention policies in Afghanistan to make them consistent with international law, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch have said 2009-11-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009111314040&lang=e Brazilian and Paraguayan authorities must redouble their efforts to find an indigenous teacher who has been missing since 30 October. 2009-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=brazil,paraguay http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009111013966&lang=e Amnesty International has condemned the use of apparently toxic pesticides to intimidate an indigenous community after they resisted being forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands. 2009-11-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=paraguay http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009110613936&lang=e Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Nicaraguan Supreme Court continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminal laws on abortion which entered into force in 2008. 2009-11-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nicaragua http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009110513894&lang=e US and Italian intelligence agents are convicted for their involvement in the abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar). 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt,italy,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091104001&lang=e Bill Would Provide Critical Options to Death Row Inmates with New Evidence of Innocence. 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091104002&lang=e Tom Parker, Amnesty International USA?s policy director for (counter)-terrorism and human rights, issued the following statement in response to the Italian court?s decision to convict 23 Americans in the CIA kidnapping case of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009110413887&lang=e Amnesty International has urged the Guyanese authorities to charge police officers involved in the torture and ill-treatment of three individuals who were detained in relation to a murder investigation. 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=guyana http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091029003&lang=e Amnesty International renewed its call today for President Obama to lift economic sanctions against Cuba, following a vote by the United Nations General Assembly condemning the decades-old embargo. The human rights organization, in a recent report, found the embargo was putting the lives of millions of Cubans at risk by blocking access to vital medicines and medical technologies. 2009-10-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091028002&lang=e President Obama signed the FY10 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, which contains revisions to the rules for military commissions used to try detainees at the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Amnesty International rejects as insufficient the changes made and notes that President Obama?s decision to stand by the commissions flies in the face of his promise that U.S. policy would uphold the nation?s laws and values. 2009-10-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009102813765&lang=e Two members of a peasant organization in Chiapas State, currently held in a state prison, were blindfolded, bound and beaten during their interrogation. 2009-10-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009102713739&lang=e Three programmes have been cancelled by a popular radio station, because their broadcasts 'failed to promote peace' and 'discredited' the electoral process. 2009-10-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009102313678&lang=e The Peruvian Congress' has decided to stand by its proposal to decriminalize abortion in cases where women and girls become pregnant as a result of rape or incest. 2009-10-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=peru http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091021001&lang=e However, human rights organization rebukes Congress and administration for blocking the release of ?torture photos;? asks Congress to resist any further amendments barring detainees for trials in the United States 2009-10-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009102013608&lang=e A law in Uruguay that has allowed the police and military to get away with torture and murder should be annulled. 2009-10-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=uruguay http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009102013633&lang=e Amnesty International has called on the Peruvian authorities to step up recent efforts to decriminalise abortion in the country. 2009-10-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=peru http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200910201362&lang=e The invaluable work carried out by human rights defenders in Colombia must be respected by all the parties to the armed conflict, Amnesty International said following yesterday?s attempt on the life of human rights activist Islena Rey in Puerto Rico Municipality in Meta Department. 2009-10-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091019003&lang=e Laura Moye, Director of Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, issued the following comments today in response to media reports that former Texas Gov. Mark White said the death penalty in Texas may need to be reconsidered: 2009-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200910191360&lang=e A law in Uruguay that has allowed the police and military to get away with torture and murder should be annulled, Amnesty International said today, as the country prepares to vote in a referendum on the future of the law. 2009-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=uruguay http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009101913580&lang=e The invaluable work carried out by human rights defenders in Colombia must be respected by all the parties to the armed conflict, Amnesty International has said. 2009-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009101613560&lang=e Amnesty International has criticised the Paraguayan Congress for rejecting a draft bill that would have returned ancestral land to the Yakye Axa indigenous community. 2009-10-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=paraguay http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009101613569&lang=e Sister Helen Prejean gives Amnesty International her personal account on how educating people on the issue of the death penalty can make a difference. 2009-10-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009101513523&lang=e Amnesty International's Secretary General has called on world leaders and policy makers to shift the debate on poverty from economics to addressing the human rights problems that impoverish and keep people poor. 2009-10-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009101313492&lang=e Yoani Sánchez was due to accept an award for her journalism in New York. This is the fourth time she has been refused permission by the authorities to travel outside Cuba in the past two years. 2009-10-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009100913472&lang=e A Texas man who faces execution after jurors at his trial consulted the Bible when deliberating his fate should have his death sentence commuted, Amnesty International has said. 2009-10-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009100913473&lang=e The de facto Honduran authorities must allow opposition journalists to broadcast as negotiations over the country's political future continue, Amnesty International has said. 2009-10-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras