More than 50 years since we started, we continue to take action and campaign for justice, freedom, truth and dignity wherever it has been denied.We do this by investigating and exposing human rights abuses wherever they happen.
Thailand: More peaceful activists arrested and charged amidst pro-democracy protests Join us and build a world where human rights are enjoyed by all.We work both at home and abroad to tackle the most pressing human rights violations.Amnesty International demands that the Russian authorities fully investigate the circumstances of the unexpected and critical deterioration of the health of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny and allow him to immediately … Responding to the role of Luis Kutner in Amnesty International, who died in 1993 and may be linked to the murder of Fred Hampton, Amnesty International USA issued the following … The Belarusian authorities must immediately end their assault on journalists, Amnesty International said today, amid reports of journalists being arrested, beaten, and targeted with rubber bullets while covering the vicious police … The World is Watching: Mass Violations by U.S. Police of Black Lives Matter Protesters’ Rights For organizations like Amnesty who are committed to protecting and fighting for human rights, it acts as a guiding inspiration for our mission and vision. Be prepared for active learning, connecting with course participants from across the world and to become part of a global community campaigning for the rights of refugees to be upheld everywhere.
Firearm homicides continued to disproportionately impact communities of colour, particularly young black men, with African Americans comprising 58.5% of all gun homicides, but only 13% of the population; firearm homicides remained the leading cause of death for black men and boys aged 15 to 34.Nearly 1,000 individuals were killed by law enforcement personnel using firearms in 2018, and preliminary statistics indicate an equally high number of such killings in 2019.
https://www.amnesty.ca/our-work/issues/international-human-rights-principles Responding to the role of Luis Kutner in Amnesty International, who died in 1993 and may be linked to the murder of Fred Hampton, Amnesty International USA issued the following … Human Rights Observers are Amnesty International trained representatives, who will be deployed to protests, rallies and other public situations where there is a significant threat that human rights violations may occur.
It only admitted to having caused such casualties in April 2019, following the publication of an Amnesty International report setting out irrefutable evidence of such killings.A decade after dozens of detainees were held in a CIA-operated secret detention programme – authorized from 2001 to 2009 – during which systematic human rights violations were committed, including enforced disappearance and torture, no person suspected of criminal responsibility had been brought to justice for these crimes and the limited investigations conducted were closed with no charges brought against anyone.The government’s ongoing failure to protect individuals from persistent gun violence continued to deny people their human rights, including the rights to life, to security of the person and to freedom from discrimination. Children, women, older people, LGBTI people and persons with disabilities or acute medical conditions were at particular risk of such ill-treatment from the agony of arbitrary detention and inadequate detention facilities. Iran Focus London, May 23 The international human rights organisation Amnesty International blasted human rights abuses in Iran in 2005 in […] Mali: Military authorities must end arbitrary arrests and ensure the investigation of unlawful killing of four people HROs objectively and impartially observe, document and report back on incidents that may occur which infringe on the freedom of association and peaceful assembly. Nobody can decide that some are more important than others.