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USA: If confirmed, Supreme Court decision could endanger abortion rights around the world

In response to reports that the Supreme Court is preparing to overturn abortion rights in the United States, Agnes Callamard,...

Steven Donziger

USA: After almost 1,000 days of arbitrary detention, Steven Donziger’s release highlights the urgent need for action against SLAPPs

25 April 2022 In response to the news that the unjust six-month sentence of human rights defender and environmental lawyer...

Canada: End the Safe Third Country Agreement

USA: Facial recognition technology reinforcing racist stop-and-frisk policing in New York – new research

Non-white neighbourhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens live with more CCTV surveillance New interactive website details exposure to invasive...

Crisis and Tactical Round Up: Free The Five in China, WHRDs in Afghanistan and more

China: Free The Five When China agreed to host the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the authorities promised that...

USA/UK: President Biden must drop politically motivated charges against Assange

Amnesty spokespeople at London’s High Court and available for interview Amnesty has applied to observe the proceedings Ahead of the preliminary appeal...

“I am so, so happy. I still can’t believe it.” After two years in ICE detention, Maura is free!

After a campaign to free Maura, a 41-year-old transgender woman originally from Nicaragua, generated thousands of emails — including at...

USA: Free Trans Woman from Indefinite Detention

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 67/21 HERE Maura, a 41-year-old transgender woman, has spent half her life living in the...

Surveillance city: NYPD can use more than 15,000 cameras to track people using facial recognition in Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn

The NYPD can feed images from 15,280 surveillance cameras in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx into facial recognition software. The...

OUTCOME: USA: Texas Man Executed Based on Faulty Theory

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 53/21, UPDATE 1 HERE Quintin Jones was executed on 19 May. He was on death...

USA: Facebook Oversight Board decision to ban Trump doesn’t solve disastrous handling of hateful and violent speech

Responding to the Facebook Oversight Board voting today to uphold Donald Trump’s ban from the platform after his account was...

Conviction of Derek Chauvin a Measure of Accountability; Police Reform Still Needed

In response to Derek Chauvin being found guilty of murder in the death of George Floyd, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA)...

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