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Global: FIFA Should Halt Process for 2034 World Cup Bid and Demand Credible Human Rights Strategy for 2030

In a new report, Amnesty International and the SRA evaluate the human rights strategies proposed by Morocco, Portugal and Spain for…

November 11, 2024

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Saudi Arabia: Authorities Hosting Internet Governance Forum While Imprisoning Online Critics Exposes Deep Hypocrisy

40 NGOs and human rights organizations call on Saudi Arabia’ s authorities to immediately release all those arbitrarily detained solely…

September 6, 2024

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Amnesty International USA Reaction to Lifting Suspension of “Offensive” Weapons Shipments to Saudi Arabia

The Biden administration is sending the message that compliance with international law is optional.

August 13, 2024

Conmebol's President Alejandro Dominguez (L-2) and FIFA President Gianni Infantino (R-2), accompanied by Paraguay's President Santiago Peña (L) and Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle(R), sign a book of minutes of the 2030 World Cup during Conmebol's 78th Ordinary Congress in Luque, Paraguay on April 11, 2024.
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Global: Saudi Arabia Bid for the 2034 FIFA World Cup Whitewashes Human Rights Record While Joint Bid for 2030 Leaves Key Gaps 

Saudi Arabia has failed to meet FIFA’s own human rights requirements in its bid for the 2034 men’s World Cup.

August 1, 2024

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Global: FIFA Must Protect Human Rights by Securing Binding Safeguards from 2030 and 2034 World Cup Bidders – New Report

FIFA must rigorously and transparently ensure that bids to host the 2030 and 2034 men’s World Cup tournaments fully safeguard…

June 5, 2024

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FIFA Sponsorship Deal with Saudi Aramco Covering World Cups Raises Human Rights Concerns

World football could be dogged by human rights violations unless action is taken to address Saudi Arabia's atrocious human rights…

April 26, 2024

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Saudi Arabia: Repressive Draft Penal Code Shatters Illusions of Progress and Reform 

Amnesty International's analysis of the leaked draft code reveals it is essentially a manifesto for repression that would entrench human…

March 19, 2024

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Amnesty Calls for VC Firms to Conduct Human Rights Due Diligence on Investments from Saudi Public Investment Fund

Amnesty International reiterated its call for leading venture capital firms to respect human rights and conduct human rights due diligence…

April 27, 2023

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53 Groups Urge Passage of Senate 502B Resolution on Saudi Arabia

Civil society reporting and successive State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices mandated under Section 502B have recorded widespread…

April 4, 2023

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Uyghur Child Among Four ‘Booked for Deportation’ from Saudi Arabia to China Tonight

Amnesty International has received credible information that Buheliqiemu Abula and her teenage daughter, 13, were made to take tests for…

April 13, 2022

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Uyghur Girl, 13, Among Four ‘Facing Deportation’ and Torture in China

Saudi authorities must immediately release four Uyghurs – including a 13-year-old girl and her mother – who are at grave…

April 4, 2022

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Google must halt plans to establish Cloud Region in Saudi Arabia

Amnesty International has today joined with 38 other human rights groups and individuals to call on Google to halt plans to establish…

May 25, 2021