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DRC: Authorities must reopen media outlets and end crackdown on internet freedom

Following further closures of media outlets and a mounting crackdown on internet and mobile messaging in the wake of elections…

January 3, 2019

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Saudi Arabia: Censorship of Netflix is latest proof of crackdown on freedom of expression

Responding to news that Netflix have removed an episode from a comedy show in Saudi Arabia, after officials from the…

January 2, 2019

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Amnesty USA Reaction to Use of Tear Gas Along US-Mexico border

In response to reports that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents used tear gas against men, women and children crossing…

January 1, 2019

Crisis Mission - Mexico Border, February 2017

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Statement Responding to Another Child’s Death in Custody of Customs and Border Protection

Responding to news reports of the death of an 8-year-old Guatemalan boy in the custody of a Customs and Border…

December 25, 2018

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega speaks during the commemoration of the 51st anniversary of the Pancasan guerrilla campaign in Managua, on August 29, 2018. - Ortega called the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights "infamous" and "terror instrument", after it denounced Wednesday systematic human rights violations in the framework of opposition protests in which 300 people were killed. (Photo by INTI OCON / AFP) (Photo credit should read INTI OCON/AFP/Getty Images)

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Nicaragua: Report affirms the government of President Ortega has committed crimes against humanity

In response to the publication of the “Report on the Acts of Violence Occurred Between April 18 and May 30, 2018…

December 21, 2018

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Remain in Mexico Plan Could Prove Deadly to Vulnerable Families

In response to a negotiated deal between the United States and Mexico that would require people to remain in Mexico…

December 20, 2018

MIRAMAR, FL - MAY 19: Jenny Martinez hugs her son, William Martinez, as they talk to the media about her trip from El Salvador and her need for asylum in America because of domestic violence and her fear for her life as they join with protesters in front of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services building on May 19, 2017 in Miramar, Florida. The protesters are asking for the Trump Administration to stop the numerous arrests of undocumented immigrants that they say have become too frequent during court appearances and when people show up to immigration offices to renew temporary permits. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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US Must Allow Survivors of Domestic Violence and Gang Violence to Seek Asylum

Judge Emmet Sullivan, on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, today struck down a decision instituted by…

December 19, 2018

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Crowdsourced Twitter study reveals shocking scale of online abuse against women

Amnesty International released a ground-breaking study into abuse against women on Twitter today, conducted with Element AI, a global artificial…

December 18, 2018

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Amnesty welcomes reports of an end to Dragonfly

Responding to media reports that Google will shut down Dragonfly, its censored search app for China, Amnesty International’s Secretary General…

December 17, 2018

A participant knees in front of the riot police line outside the headquarter of the Hungarian state television as demonstrators of a rally by members and sympathisers of several trade unions, political parties and civil organisations protest against changes to the labour code proposed by the Prime Minister's party in Budapest on December 16, 2018. (Photo by PETER KOHALMI / AFP) (Photo credit should read PETER KOHALMI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Hungary: Police must rein in unnecessary and excessive force used against protesters

The police must rein in unnecessary and excessive force, including the use of tear gas, against peaceful protesters, Amnesty International…

December 17, 2018

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY BOUREIMA HAMA Children wash their hands with a bucket bearing the lettering 'Unicef' in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP), home to some 300,000 Nigerian refugees and internally displaced by Boko Haram, in Diffa, Niger, on August 17, 2016, ahead of celebrations for World Humanitarian Day on August 19. / AFP / BOUREIMA HAMA (Photo credit should read BOUREIMA HAMA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Nigeria: UNICEF suspended amid absurd smear campaign

Responding to the Nigerian army’s suspension of UNICEF from operations in northeast Nigeria over allegations of spying and collaborating with Boko Haram,…

December 14, 2018

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Construction of Border Wall Could Risk Thousands of Lives

In response to reports that a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl has died of dehydration and exhaustion after being taken into Border…

December 14, 2018