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Turkey: Global figures join call to “end gross injustice” as trial of Amnesty Chair and Director and other rights activists resumes
More than 70 renowned cultural and political figures have come together to demand that Turkish authorities drop trumped-up terrorism charges against 11 human rights defenders, including Amnesty International’s Turkey Director and Chair.
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Amnesty International’s 2018 Annual General Meeting
Amnesty International USA is excited to be hosting this year’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in the Washington, DC metropolitan area! Our 53rd AGM will be held at the Bethesda North…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Law Leading To Military Impunity Sanctioned (Brazil: UA 236.17)
The Brazilian President sanctioned the law that transfers to the Military Court the ability to try human rights violations and crimes against life, such as killings and extrajudicial executions, carried…
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Brazil: New Amnesty campaign will fight back as Congress considers legal changes that flagrantly attack human rights
Amnesty International today launches a new campaign to fight back against a raft of changes currently being discussed by Congress which could reduce legal protections for marginalized groups, impose a…
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Brazil: Spike in killings by Rio police as country faces UN review
Authorities in Brazil are increasingly turning a blind eye to a deepening human rights crisis of their own making, Amnesty International said in a report to the United Nations Human Rights…
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Country and Thematic Specialist
Country Specialists are AIUSA volunteer leaders commissioned to serve as AIUSA's country experts and strategists.
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Yemen: Multibillion-dollar arms sales by USA and UK reveal shameful contradiction with aid efforts
The USA and UK are fuelling serious violations that have caused devastating civilian suffering through multibillion-dollar arms transfers to Saudi Arabia that vastly overshadow their humanitarian efforts, said Amnesty International.
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Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights Defenders (HRD) are routinely the target of judicial harassment, smear campaigns, intimidation, death threats, unlawful surveillance, arbitrary detention, sexual violence, assault, torture, enforced disappearances, and even assassination. Since…
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Saudi Arabia must immediately abandon all use of cluster munitions
Saudi Arabia should immediately abandon all use of cluster munitions, destroy its stockpile and accede to the international Convention on Cluster Munitions, Amnesty International said after the Kingdom’s surprise admission…
Update
Amnesty International: Shareholder Activist
[caption id="attachment_74131" align="aligncenter" width="558"] Emergildo Criollo, a leader from the Cofan tribe in Ecuador and Rita Maldonado, a Guanta community member at the demonstration outside the Chevron shareholder meeting. Behind…
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Angola: Blocking rap concert is state censorship
Ahead of the planned livestream of a concert this evening in Luanda by Luaty Beirão - also known as Ikonoklasta - and MCK, two well-known rappers and critics of the…
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Brazil: Rio’s Olympic legacy shattered with no let-up in killings by police
The legacy of the Rio 2016 Olympics has been shattered with at least eight people killed in police operations in the city during the Games and peaceful protests heavily repressed,…