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Human Rights on Capitol Hill late June Edition
To view PDF version click here: Human Rights on Capitol Hill late June Human Rights on Capitol Hill published by Amnesty International USA  June 26, 2019  In this edition of…
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Human Rights on Capitol Hill June Edition
To view PDF version click here: Human Rights on Capitol Hill June Human Rights on Capitol Hill published by Amnesty International USA  June 12, 2019  In this edition of Human…
Press Release
Fresh evidence of government-sponsored crimes in Darfur shows drawdown of peacekeepers premature and reckless
Amnesty International has disturbing new evidence, including satellite imagery, showing that Sudanese government forces, including the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias, have continued to commit war crimes and…
Press Release
Catastrophic failure as civilians ravaged by war violations 70 years after Geneva Conventions
The UN Security Council must mark the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions this year by ending its catastrophic failure to protect millions of civilians around the world whose lives and livelihoods…
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STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD ON THE MAY 15 HEARING “THE CONFLICT IN LIBYA”
Rep. Eliot Engel, Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, Ranking Member House Foreign Affairs Committee 2170 Rayburn Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Re: May 15 hearing on Libya Dear Chairman Engel,…
Press Release
Sudan: Former president Omar Al-Bashir must be tried by ICC for war crimes
Responding to news that former Sudan president Omar Al-Bashir is being detained in Kober prison in Khartoum, Joan Nyanyuki, Amnesty International’s Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great…
Press Release
Sudan: Government mounts lethal offensive against protesters killing nine, blocking food and water supplies
Nine people have been reportedly killed in Sudan since protesters began a sit-in at the military’s headquarters in Khartoum on April 6, with police and security forces using excessive force…
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Amnesty International USA’s Statement for March 6 Hearing on “Protecting Dreamers and TPS Recipients”
To view PDF click here: AIUSA Statement for House Judiciary Hearing on TPS-Dream (3-6-19) March 5, 2019 Chairman Jerrold Lewis Nadler                                Ranking Member Doug Collins House Committee on the Judiciary                          …
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Forty-Seven Students Held Incommunicado, One Killed (Sudan: UA 9.19)
Forty-seven students of Darfur origin remain in incommunicado detention after security agents arrested them in raids on their homes on 23 and 27 December 2018 in Sinnar and Khartoum states.…
Press Release
Syria: Thousands of digital activists to track how US-led air strikes destroyed Raqqa
Thousands of digital activists around the world will take part in an innovative new crowdsourcing data project Amnesty International is launching today, which uses satellite imagery to help plot how…
Press Release
Relentless harassment, intimidation and censorship of journalists must end in Sudan
Sudanese authorities have this year been unrelenting in their quest to silence independent media by arresting and harassing journalists, and censoring both print and broadcast media, Amnesty International said today.…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Detained Religious Teacher Faces Death Penalty (Sudan: UA 70.18)
Matar Younis Ali Hussein, a religious teacher who has a visual disability, has been formally charged with three offences under the 1991 Penal Code. Two of the offences put him…