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International Women’s Day: Dramatic deterioration in respect for women’s rights and gender equality must be decisively reversed
Catastrophic attacks on human rights and gender equality over the past twelve months have lowered protection for and upped threats against women and girls across the globe, Amnesty International said…
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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – December 2021 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured Human Rights Day What’s Coming Down the Pike Welcome News DECEMBER 2021 NEWSLETTER Featured: Tigray and Ethiopia: One Year After the…
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Senate Must Take Action to Protect Human Rights
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO), a challenge to Mississippi’s abortion ban that could decimate the right to an…
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US: The Texas Abortion Ban
The following is a joint statement about the Texas abortion law by the Global Justice Center, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. The United States Supreme Court is holding oral…
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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – October 2021 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured U.S. Reproductive Rights International Updates In Case You Missed It Latest Amnesty International Reports OCTOBER 2021 NEWSLETTER Featured: Haitian Asylum Seekers…
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U.S. Backsliding on Global Gains in Abortion Rights Â
The past few months have underscored that American’s rights to abortion remain under attack. Earlier this month, S.B. 8 went into effect in Texas, effectively banning abortions as early as…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: THREAT TO SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS (Dominican Republic: UA 36.21)
With the beginning of the new parliamentary term, a preliminary draft of the Criminal Code is being debated by the Dominican Republic’s Congress with the objective of approving a reformed…
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Access to abortion is a human right
An abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. It is a basic healthcare need for millions of women, girls and people who can become pregnant. Worldwide, an estimated…
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Texas Violently Strips Away Right To Abortion
Responding to Texas law TX SB8 going into effects, which bans the right of people to seek an abortion at the six-week mark, before many are aware of their pregnancies,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: DETAINED FOR DEFENDING WOMEN AND GIRLS’ RIGHTS (Venezuela: UA 80.21)
Vannesa Rosales is a teacher and women and girls’ rights defender in the state of Mérida (West). On October 12, 2020, officers from the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations Unit…
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Global Coalition of Over 200 Groups Call for Permanent End to Global Gag Rule
 A coalition of over 200 international civil society organizations, organized by Planned Parenthood Global and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, released a joint statement today calling for a permanent end to the…
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Grassroots Advocacy Library
Amnesty International USA’s grassroots advocates raise human rights priorities with Members of Congress. Use this library to learn about pressing human rights issues in Congress and how to lobby your…
