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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...

Covid-19: Pharmaceutical companies’ failure on equal vaccine access contributed human rights catastrophe in 2021

Despite urgent calls to ensure the equal distribution of Covid-19 vaccines in 2021, pharmaceutical companies tragically failed to rise to...

Honduras: Amnesty International condemns conviction of six of the ‘Guapinol eight’

February 9, 2022 Today the sentencing court in Trujillo, in the department of Colón, northern Honduras, found six of the...

Americas: Amnesty International sounds alert over killings of human rights defenders and journalists in first month of 2022

February 2, 2022 With at least 20 human rights defenders and four journalists killed across the region in January, the...

Honduras: Amnesty International demands justice for the Guapinol eight

February 3, 2022 After two months on trial in Tocoa, northern Honduras, against the eight prisoners of conscience, José Daniel...

Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity

Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a...

Afghanistan: Taliban authorities must reveal Alia Azizi’s whereabouts

The Taliban authorities must urgently investigate the abduction of Alia Azizi, a senior female prison official who has been missing...

Russia: One year after jailing, Aleksei Navalny and his associates in a “living hell”

Over the course of the last 12 months, the Russian authorities have unleashed an unprecedented campaign of repression and reprisals...

China: World must use Winter Olympics to demand human rights improvements

Games take place amid worsening human rights situation International community must not be complicit in sportswashing exercise IOC should better...

Text on sign says NSO: Stop Hacking Activists

El Salvador: Amnesty International verifies use of Pegasus spyware for surveillance of journalists

12 January 2021 A joint investigation by Access Now and the Citizen Lab has identified the use of NSO Group’s...

AFTER COUP, MYANMAR MILITARY PUTS CHOKEHOLD ON PEOPLE’S BASIC NEEDS

Food and medical supplies restricted in areas where the military has indiscriminately attacked civilian populations Local aid workers and volunteer...

Honduras: Amnesty International urges authorities to immediately release eight prisoners of conscience

José Daniel Márquez, Kelvin Alejandro Romero, José Abelino Cedillo, Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, Ewer Alexander Cedillo, Orbin Nahún Hernández, Arnol Javier...

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