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Kavanaugh Confirmation Is Devastating

Responding to news that the Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court, Daphne Eviatar, Amnesty International…

October 6, 2018

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Amnesty International USA Calls for Reform of Lethal Force Laws following Laquan McDonald Decision

Reacting to the guilty verdict around the 2014 fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, Kristina Roth, Senior Program Officer at…

October 5, 2018

Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad speaks as she attends 'The Fight against Impunity for Atrocities: Bringing Da'esh to Justice' at the United Nations Headaquarters on March 9, 2017 in New York. / AFP PHOTO / KENA BETANCUR (Photo credit should read KENA BETANCUR/AFP/Getty Images)

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Nobel Peace Prize: Courageous work of Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad highlights need to fight impunity for rape in war

In response to news that Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yezidi human rights activist Nadia Murad have jointly won the…

October 5, 2018

A woman walks into Nigeria from Cameroon at a checkpoint border between Cameroon and Nigeria, in Mfum, in Cross Rivers State, southeast Nigeria, on February 1, 2018. The UN refugee agency on February 1, 2018 criticised Nigeria for breaching international agreements after the leader of a Cameroonian anglophone separatist movement and his supporters were extradited at Yaounde's request. Cameroon's government is fighting an insurgency by a group demanding a separate state for two regions that are home to most of the country's anglophones, who account for about a fifth of the population. Thousands of Cameroonians fled to the remote border region with Nigeria to escape from the violences in English-speaking southwest Cameroon. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Next government in Cameroon must tackle human rights crises in violence-hit regions

Cameroon’s next government must urgently tackle human rights crises in which hundreds of civilians have been killed this year alone…

October 4, 2018

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar's Rakhine state arrive near the Khanchon border crossing near the Bangaldeshi town of Teknaf on Septebmer 5, 2017. Nearly 125,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh since a fresh upsurge of violence in Myanmar on August 25, the United Nations said September 5, as fears grow of a humanitarian crisis in the overstretched camps. The UN said 123,600 had crossed the border in the past 11 days from Myanmar's violence-wracked Rakhine state. / AFP PHOTO / K M Asad (Photo credit should read K M ASAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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EXPULSION OF SEVEN ROHINGYA: A DARK DAY FOR INDIA TODAY

Today, seven Rohingya men, Mohammad Jalal, Mokbul Khan, Jalal Uddin, Mohammad Youns, Sabbir Ahamed, Rahim Uddin and Mohammad Salam were…

October 4, 2018

Peru's former President (1990-2000) Alberto Fujimori, arrives for the reading of the verdict on charges of embezzling state funds and using them to manipulate the media, at a police base in Lima on January 8, 2015. . The former leader is already serving a 25-year sentence over killings committed by a government-backed death squad. AFP PHOTO/ERNESTO BENAVIDES (Photo credit should read ERNESTO BENAVIDES/AFP/Getty Images)

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Peru: Decision to overturn Fujimori pardon confirms that victims’ rights must take priority over political decisions

In response to the decision of the Preparatory Trial Court of the Supreme Court of Justice to overturn the pardon…

October 3, 2018

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Malaysia: Syrian man stuck at airport must not be deported

Responding to the arrest of Hassan al-Kontar by Malaysian police, Rachel Chhoa-Howard, Amnesty International’s Malaysia Researcher, said: “Hassan al-Kontar’s arrest…

October 3, 2018

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Iran: Victim of domestic and sexual violence, arrested as a child, is executed after unfair trial

Responding to the horrific news that 24-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Zeinab Sekaanvand was executed early this morning in Urumieh central…

October 2, 2018

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Yemen: Renewal of UN war crimes probe strikes blow against impunity

Responding to the United Nations Human Rights Council vote to renew the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts (GEE),…

September 28, 2018

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Philippines: Duterte’s playful comment on killings should spur ICC probe

Responding to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that his “only sin is extrajudicial killings” made during a speech at the…

September 28, 2018

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Human Rights Council addresses unprecedented human rights crisis and sends a strong message of support to the people in Venezuela

Today, 27 September, the United Nations’ Human Rights Council (HRC) passed a resolution to address the unprecedented human rights crisis…

September 27, 2018

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Amnesty International USA Board Elects Becky Farrar for Chair, Fills Other Leadership Posts

Amnesty International USA announced today that Becky Farrar has been elected Chair of its Board of Directors. Most recently, Farrar…

September 27, 2018