Amnesty International produces reports based on rigorous and independent research. These reports document patterns of human rights abuses and provide a blueprint for change.
Defending the Rights of Refugees and Migrants in the Digital Age
Digital technology interventions are increasingly shaping and delivering the migration management and asylum policies of states.
The Cost of Doing Business? The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA
This report highlights the harms suffered by local communities from pollution emitted by the hundreds of petrochemical plants and refineries along the Houston Ship Channel in Texas.
Silicon Shadows: Venture Capital, Human Rights, and the Lack of Due Diligence
Our analysis showed that leading VC firms and start-up accelerators are critically deficient in their responsibility to conduct human rights due diligence when investing in Generative AI start-ups.
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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…
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Eritrean Troops’ Massacre of Hundreds of Axum Civilians May Amount to Crime Against Humanity
Eritrean troops fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray state systematically killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in the northern city of Axum on November 28-29, 2020, opening fire in the streets and conducting…
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Vietnamese Activists Targeted by Notorious Hacking Group
Hacking group Ocean Lotus, which has been suspected of having links with the Vietnamese government, is behind a sustained campaign of spyware attacks on the country’s human rights activists, a…
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Government Tactics to Silence Criticism and Social Demands Deepen Human Rights Crisis in Nicaragua
Since the current human rights erupted in Nicaragua in 2018, the government has clamped down on all forms of dissent or criticism. The authorities have pursued a policy of eradicating,…
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New Report Details Ongoing Human Rights Violations at Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility
Amnesty International has released a new report highlighting ongoing and historic human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, as detentions there enter their 20th year and as a new President…
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Tech giants are complicit in industrial- scale repression in Viet Nam
Tech giants Facebook and YouTube are allowing themselves to become tools of the Vietnamese authorities’ censorship and harassment of its population, in an alarming sign of how these companies could…
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New evidence shows refugees and migrants in Libya trapped in horrific cycle of abuses
Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants in Libya are trapped in a vicious cycle of cruelty with little to no hope of finding safe and legal pathways out, Amnesty International said…
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Leaked documents in Myanmar reveal global business ties to military crimes
An Amnesty International investigation has exposed how international businesses are linked to the financing of Myanmar’s military, including many units directly responsible for crimes under international law and other human rights…
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No safe haven: New report highlights Canada’s failure to prosecute individuals accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity
The recent murder of a Liberian national who had settled in Ontario has made one thing clear: Canada is failing to bring those suspected of crimes against humanity and war…
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Detainees in Iran flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown
Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance,…
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Update to Amnesty International Report on COVID-19 IN US IMMIGRATION DETENTION (August 2020)
On 7 April 2020, Amnesty international issued the report ‘We are adrift, about to sink’: The looming COVID-19 disaster in US Immigration Detention facilities. As of 28 August 2020 –…
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NSO Group spyware used against Moroccan journalist days after company pledged to respect human rights
NSO Group, the Israeli company marketing its technology in the fight against COVID-19, contributed to a sustained campaign by the government of Morocco to spy on Moroccan journalist Omar Radi,…