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=ENGUSA20100205001&lang=e Amnesty International USA today applauded the introduction of legislation to combat the global crisis of violence against women and girls. The International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA) would for the first time make the epidemic of violence against women worldwide a priority of the United States government and integrate prevention strategies across foreign policy and assistance programs. 2010-02-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010020515291&lang=e Activist Ana María Pizarro, tells Amnesty International how pregnant women are at risk of losing their lives because of Nicaragua's abortion ban. 2010-02-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nicaragua http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012915215&lang=e Two weeks after the earthquake that devastated Haiti, its people are confronted with a human rights crisis. 2010-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=haiti http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012815197&lang=e Amnesty International on Thursday issued a series of recommendations to newly elected Honduran President Porfirio Lobo to repair the damage done to human rights since the June 2009 coup d'état, which left hundreds seeking justice. 2010-01-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012615131&lang=e Porfirio Lobo, who takes office on Wednesday, has been urged to see that justice is done for the victims of abuses committed by the security forces following last June's coup d'état. 2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100125001&lang=e As the nation anticipates President Obama?s first State of the Union address on Wednesday, January 27, Amnesty International (AI) raised critical unresolved human rights issues, requesting the administration's urgent attention. 2010-01-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012215106&lang=e US authorities and UN agencies in Haiti must urgently resolve the lack of access to emergency aid for those in desperate need following last week's earthquake. 2010-01-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=haiti http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012115067&lang=e Amnesty International's new report details how activists have suffered killings, attacks, harassment, threats and imprisonment to prevent them from doing their work. 2010-01-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012115082&lang=e Profiles of three human rights activists who face life-threatening harassment and attacks, while the government does very little to protect them. 2010-01-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012015042&lang=e President Obama's administration has failed to match its words with concrete action when it comes to accountability and remedy for human rights violations committed in the name of 'countering terrorism'. 2010-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010011114899&lang=e Leading human rights organizations have urged more European states to accept detainees held at the US detention centre at Guantánamo who cannot be returned to their countries of origin. 2010-01-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=belgium,finland,france,germany,hungary,ireland http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010010614872&lang=e Ricardo Ucán Ceca served almost 10 years of a 22-year sentence before he was released last month. 2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010010614869&lang=e Josefina Reyes, a campaigner against violence and human rights abuses by military officials, was killed near Ciudad Juarez on Sunday. 2010-01-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010010514866&lang=e Ramiro Rivera and Dora Alicia Recinos Sorto were killed in December. They both opposed mining projects in the central Cabañas area. 2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=elsalvador http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009122314843&lang=e Amnesty International has condemned the kidnapping and killing of Luis Francisco Cuéllar Carvajal, Governor of the Colombian department of Caquetá in the south of the country. 2009-12-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=colombia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091215001&lang=e Sarnata Reynolds, Advocacy and Policy Director for Refugee and Migrants' Rights at Amnesty International USA (AISUA), issued the following statement in response to the introduction of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Act of 2009 (CIR ASAP) to the U.S. House of Representatives 2009-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121514612&lang=e In a new report, Amnesty International says that killings by police officers, often of young people who have either a criminal record or are suspected of involvement in crime, continue to be reported. 2009-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=guatemala http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091215002&lang=e Tom Parker, Amnesty International USA policy director for (counter) terrorism and human rights, issued the following statement in response to the Obama administration's decision to relocate some of the detainees in the U.S.- controlled detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the Thomsom Correctional Center in Illinois 2009-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121514630&lang=e Walter Trochez was shot in the chest by a drive-by gunman on Sunday night while walking home through the centre of Tegucigalpa. 2009-12-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091214001&lang=e Statement by AIUSA's Executive Director Larry Cox regarding today's speech by Secretary Clinton. 2009-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121114596&lang=e People living on the land in Chihuahua State, northern Mexico, have been intimidated and attacked for six years. Last week, a woman was shot and injured at her home. 2009-12-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091209002&lang=e Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA executive director, issued the following statement on the eve of President Barack Obama's acceptance of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. 2009-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120814514&lang=e New evidence of serious human rights violations carried out during military operations to combat organized crime and drug cartels in Mexico has been unveiled in an Amnesty International report. 2009-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mexico http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120714459&lang=e Leonor Martínez has been subjected to violence and received death threats for her work with a civil society group. 2009-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nicaragua http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120414444&lang=e An Amnesty International delegation in Honduras talked to human rights activists about the hidden crisis affecting the Central American nation. 2009-12-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091203001&lang=e Amnesty International today called for an independent investigation to ensure that those responsible for human rights abuses during the recent political crisis in Honduras are brought to justice and that victims are given reparations. 2009-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120314409&lang=e Amnesty International's delegation has documented many cases of abuse including killings following excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests of demonstrators by security forces and indiscriminate, unnecessary use of tear gas. 2009-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091202002&lang=e Inspired by the Activism that Helped Free Jailed Nigerian Revolutionary Fela Kuti, Tony Award-winning Director / Choreographer Bill T. Jones Highlights Amnesty International's Global Write-a-Thon to Free People Unjustly Imprisoned 2009-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120114329&lang=e The Peruvian authorities must conduct investigations into the deaths of all those killed during violence at a road blockade led by Amazon Indigenous peoples in June. 2009-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=peru http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009112714272&lang=e An Amnesty International delegation in Honduras monitoring the human rights situation around the presidential elections, has seen evidence suggesting an increased risk of excessive force by security forces. 2009-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=honduras