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=ENGNAU2009063011222&lang=e Further demonstrations are expected in support of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted on Sunday. 2009-06-30T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009062811157&lang=e Members of a Congressional committee in Paraguay have voted against returning Indigenous lands back to the Yakye Axa community. 2009-06-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=paraguay http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510802009&lang=e 24 June 2009 2009-06-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009062411089&lang=e Former detainees held by the USA at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan have told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) how they were subjected to abuse while in custody. 2009-06-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR230172009&lang=e The right to truth, justice and reparation for countless victims of human rights violations committed during Colombia's long-running armed conflict has again been gravely undermined following Congressional approval of a law which will grant de factoamnesties to 19,000 supposedly demobilized rank-and-file paramilitaries, many of whom are responsible for serious human rights violations, including killings, enforced disappearances and torture 2009-06-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090617003&lang=e On 11 June 2009 four Uighur detainees held without charge or trial in Guantánamo Bay since 2002 were transferred to Bermuda. Amnesty International welcomes Bermuda?s acceptance of these four men, as it brings an end to their unlawful detention and offers them the chance to begin to rebuild their lives. It calls on all parties with interest or influence over this situation not to jeopardize the human rights of these men or their ability to get on with their future, until now put on hold. 2009-06-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060910896&lang=e Clashes in the Peruvian Amazon town of Bagua on Friday saw at least 9 demonstrators and 24 police officers confirmed killed. 2009-06-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=peru http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060410833&lang=e US President Barack Obama met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo on Thursday as he continued his trip to the Middle East. 2009-06-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060410843&lang=e Plans to kill Marcelo Freixo and his aide were found during a long-term police operation against militia groups controlling over a hundred shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro. 2009-06-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=brazil http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009060310822&lang=e Terry Lee Hankins was the 16th person to be executed in Texas this year, out of a national total of 30. 2009-06-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009052710786&lang=e A new Amnesty International campaign designed to give a voice to deprived people will empower "prisoners of poverty" as previous campaigns empowered prisoners of conscience, says the organization's Secretary General. 2009-05-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR230142009&lang=e Amnesty International welcomes the Colombian government's recent decision to endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples 2009-05-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009052210729&lang=e US President Barack Obama has restated his commitment to closing the Guantánamo detention facility and to ending the use of the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" approved under the previous US administration. 2009-05-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009052010715&lang=e US death row prisoner Troy Davis once again faces the prospect of an execution date. 2009-05-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510672009&lang=e USA: Transparency and accountability dealt another blow 2009-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009051210607&lang=e US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was released from jail in Iran on Monday following international and domestic protests at her detention. 2009-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510612009&lang=e USA: Any return to unfair trials must be rejected 2009-05-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009050710546&lang=e Nine activists working for two prominent human rights organizations in Guatemala have received dozens of death threats by SMS text messages. 2009-05-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=guatemala http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009050110468&lang=e Seven members of the Colombian army unit which is alleged to have killed the husband of an Indigenous leader have been detained, according to media reports. 2009-05-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510592009&lang=e United States of America: Texas: One governor, 200 executions 2009-04-30T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510572009&lang=e United States of America: Too much cruelty, too little clemency: Texas nears 200th execution under current governor 2009-04-30T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510582009&lang=e 29 April 2009 2009-04-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009042910423&lang=e Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming reality. 2009-04-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009042910401&lang=e 100 days after taking office, President Obama's record in terms of US counter terrorism policies has been assessed in a new Amnesty International report. 2009-04-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090429003&lang=e Amnesty International's executive director Larry Cox responds to Barack Obama's statement that waterboarding is torture. 2009-04-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR410232009&lang=e On 28 and 29 April the Inter American Court of Human Rights will hold a final public hearing in Santiago de Chile in the case against the Mexican State brought by the families of three young women who were brutally murdered in Ciudad Juárez in 2001 2009-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009042810401&lang=e 100 days after taking office, President Obama's record in terms of US counter terrorism policies has been assessed in a new Amnesty International report. 2009-04-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR270032009&lang=e Constitutional and legal reforms now underway in the Dominican Republic could lead to violations of women's human rights, Amnesty International warned today 2009-04-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=dominican republic http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009042310312&lang=e Condoleezza Rice approved the use of “water-boarding” in 2002 according to information released on Wednesday by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. 2009-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,iraq,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR010032009&lang=e The governments of the Americas have failed to recognize that human rights must be placed at the centre of efforts to confront the many fundamental challenges facing the region, including poverty, the global economic crisis, public security, climate change and energy security, Amnesty International said today at the close ofthe Fifth Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 2009-04-21T00:00:00-05:00