Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/waronterror.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100126001&lang=e&rss=waronterror UN Secretary, Karzai and other leaders to discuss security arrangements including reintegrating moderate elements of the Taliban. 2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100125001&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGNAU2010012015042&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGUSA20100120001&lang=e&rss=waronterror As detentions in the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay enter their ninth year, and the 22 January 2010 deadline for the detention facility?s closure approaches only to be missed, the administration has registered "wins" in two recent court decisions on the detentions. This paper looks at the two decisions and places them in the context of the USA?s failure to end the Guantánamo detentions. It argues that the missed deadline is a symptom of the failure of the US government to properly confront the detentions as an international human rights issue. 2010-01-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010011114899&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGUSA20090107003&lang=e&rss=waronterror Congress should not prevent disclosure of its knowledge and oversight of the CIA's use of rendition, secret detention, and torture, three leading human rights groups urged today. The groups ? Amnesty International USA (AIUSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law ? expressed concern after a federal court granted the government more time to consult with Congress about CIA records sought in the groups' Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. 2010-01-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091222001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Lithuanian parliamentary committee concluded that a CIA secret prison operated in Lithuania during the US-led "war on terror". 2009-12-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009122214832&lang=e&rss=waronterror A Lithuanian parliamentary committee has concluded that a CIA secret prison operated in Lithuania during the US-led “war on terror”. 2009-12-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=lithuania http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121714651&lang=e&rss=waronterror The government and President Dalia Grybauskaite have been urged to ensure that next week's report into allegations that the CIA operated a 'black site' in Lithuanian is thorough, independent, and impartial. 2009-12-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=lithuania http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091216001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International has been calling on the US government to ensure that the USA's counter-terrorism laws, policies and practices, including bringing to justice in fair trials those accused of involvement in the September 11, 2001 attacks, comply with international law and standards. 2009-12-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091216002&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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. 2009-12-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091215002&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGUSA20091209002&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGNAU2009120914556&lang=e&rss=waronterror Tunisian nationals Adel Ben Mabrouk and Riadh Nasseri are suspected of having committed terrorism-related crimes in Italy prior to being held at the US detention centre. 2009-12-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba,italy,tunisia,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091202001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International has called on the United States government to establish a consistent, clear and credible mechanism to investigate civilian casualties resulting from military operations in Afghanistan. The statement follows President Obama?s recent commitment to sending 30,000 more troops to the region. 2009-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091118002&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGUSA20091113001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Tom Parker, Amnesty International USA policy director for (counter) terrorism and human rights, issued the following statement in response to the Obama administration?s announcement that several 9/11 detainees will be transferred to federal courts: 2009-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091105001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amendment could have barred any Guantanamo detainee from receiving a trial in U.S. federal courts. 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009110513894&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGUSA20091104002&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGUSA20091029001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International said today that the Sudanese government was responsible for the death and ill-treatment of a prisoner who died from tuberculosis in police custody last week. 2009-10-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sudan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091028002&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGUSA20091022001&lang=e&rss=waronterror The Pakistani military must stop its harassment of civilians from the Mehsud tribe as they flee the government?s latest offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in the northwest of the country, Amnesty International said today. 2009-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091022002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International USA issued a statement in response to Congress? passage of the FY10 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that revises the rules for military commissions used to try detainees at the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. 2009-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091021001&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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=ENGNAU2009101913603&lang=e&rss=waronterror The government of Pakistan remains woefully under-prepared for a displacement crisis in South Waziristan as civilians flee the region following three days of heavy fighting. 2009-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009091613152&lang=e&rss=waronterror The USA must grant all detainees held in US custody at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan access to US courts and legal counsel, Amnesty International has said. 2009-09-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009091113065&lang=e&rss=waronterror Since the September 11 attacks in the USA eight years ago, the Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights in the name of countering terrorism. 2009-09-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=saudi_arabia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090901001&lang=e&rss=waronterror 2009-09-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090828001&lang=e&rss=waronterror By refusing to seek the repatriation of its national, Omar Khadr, from US custody in Guantánamo Bay, the Canadian government is betraying human rights principles and perpetuating injustice, while also failing to offer a remedy for its own participation in the violation of his human rights. At the same time as the Canadian authorities were continuing on their path of resisting calling for Omar Khadr?s repatriation, Afghan national Mohammed Jawad ? like Omar Khadr taken into US custody in 2002 in Afghanistan when he was still a child ? was released from Guantánamo and has been reunited with members of his family in Afghanistan. 2009-08-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa