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Urgent Action Update: ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS MURDERED (Brazil: UA 54.22)
On the morning of June 5, 2022, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, environmental and Indigenous peoples’ rights defenders, were disappeared in the Javari Valley, in the Brazilian Amazon. On June…
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Urgent Action: ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS DISAPPEARED (Brazil: UA 54.22)
In the morning of June 5, 2022, environmental and Indigenous peoples’ rights defenders Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were reported missing, after last being seen in the Javari Valley, in…
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Kendrick Perkins
Kendrick has been involved with Amnesty International USA for over 10 years with experience in leadership positions at the student group, state, regional, and national level. From 2016 - 2021,…
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Urgent Action: INVESTIGATE MISHANDLING OF THE PANDEMIC (Brazil: UA 108.21)
On October 27, 2021, the Parliamentary Inquiry Commission delivered to the Federal Public Ministry its final report on the mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has resulted in more than…
Update
Amnesty International USA Calls on Congress to Prioritize Human Rights in National Defense Authorization Act Legislation
On September 22nd, 2021, Amnesty International USA wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives in response to continuing advancement and votes on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal…
Press Release
Biden Expands Plan to Bring Back Asylum Seekers Forced to Wait in Dangerous Border Towns Under Trump’s Remain In Mexico Policy
This week, the Biden administration announced that it would take steps to allow additional asylum seekers to come back to the U.S. to safety after they were subjected to the Trump administration’s…
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Global Coalition of Over 200 Groups Call for Permanent End to Global Gag Rule
 A coalition of over 200 international civil society organizations, organized by Planned Parenthood Global and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, released a joint statement today calling for a permanent end to the…
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Summer Organizing Workshop
Join us on Saturday, June 26th from 12pm EST until 5pm EST, for a virtual workshop on how we organize to build grassroots power! This special AIUSA Summer Organizing Session…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: VOTE ON URGENT TREATMENT OF SECURITY BILL (Brazil: UA 40.21)
Any day from April 14, 2021 on the National Congress could vote a requirement to process the bill nº 6.764/2002 on National Security Issues as an urgent matter and without…
Report
Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The State of the World’s Human Rights
The global pandemic has exposed the terrible legacy of deliberately divisive and destructive policies that have perpetuated inequality, discrimination and oppression and paved the way for the devastation wrought by…
Update
Amnesty Statement for House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on the Biden Administration’s Priorities for U.S. Foreign Policy
On March 9, 2021, Amnesty International USA submitted a statement for the record ahead of a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing titled "The Biden Administration’s Priorities for U.S. Foreign Policy"…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Human Rights Defender Transferred to Brazil (Mozambique: UA 132.20)
Following a long defamatory and intimidatory campaign against Bishop Lisboa and his human rights work in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, the Pope Francis announced the transfer of Bishop Lisboa to Brazil…