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DEATH PENALTY 2022: Recorded Executions Skyrocket to Highest Figure in Five Years
Recorded executions in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years, as the Middle East and North Africa’s most notorious executioners carried out killing sprees, Amnesty International said today as…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: 14 PEOPLE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN RELATION TO PROTESTS (Iran UA 103.22)
At least 14 individuals are at grave risk of execution in Iran in connection with the nationwide protests, including for acts not involving “intentional killing”, in violation of Iran’s obligations…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: MISSOURI’S THIRD EXECUTION OF YEAR IMMINENT (USA 46.23)
Michael Tisius is scheduled to be executed in Missouri, USA, on 6 June 2023. He was sentenced to death for two murders committed on 22 June 2000. Now 42 years…
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2023 Board of Directors Candidate Biographies
Amnesty International USA 2023 Board of Directors Candidate Biographies To learn how to vote in AIUSA’s Board of Directors election, please contact [email protected]. ask questions to the candidates Announcement of…
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Conference Programming Committee Application
The Conference Programming Committee (CPC) is a group of AIUSA member leaders who will review the 2023 conference program session proposals and select the final sessions for the Virtual Activism…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: MILLIONS OF SCHOOLGIRLS AT RISK OF POISONING (Iran UA 42.23)
The rights to education, health and life of millions of schoolgirls are at risk amid ongoing chemical gas attacks deliberately targeting girls’ schools in Iran. Since November 2022, thousands of…
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Sri Lanka: Biden Must Respond to Dangerous Anti-Terrorism Act
“The draft Anti-Terrorism Act categorically fails on every human rights benchmark. If the Biden administration values the rights of the Sri Lankan people, they need to send a clear message…
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Billie Allen
On Federal Death Row Since 1998, Seeking Justice Billie Jerome Allen has been on federal death row for well over half his life. Now 45, he was 19 at the…
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Interfaith Action Against the Death Penalty: April 2023
From April 4-21, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is hosting an Interfaith Action Against the Death Penalty. Faith-based groups are invited to join AIUSA in advocating to abolish the federal…
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Annual Report 2022: Response to Russian Invasion of Ukraine Exposes an International System Unfit to Deal With Global Crises
Amnesty International’s Annual Report for 2022 highlights double standards throughout the world on human rights and the failure of the international community to unite around consistently-applied human rights and universal…
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Child Detainees in Iran Subjected To Flogging, Electric Shocks And Sexual Violence In Brutal Protest Crackdown
Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: EXECUTION WOULD BREACH INTERNATIONAL LAW (USA: UA 23.23)
Texas intends to execute Andre Thomas, a Black man, on 5 April 2023. He was sentenced to death in 2005 by an all-white jury after his lawyers failed to challenge…