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USA: Google, Facebook and Twitter 'have failed' over disinformation and hate speechPress release 25 Mar 2021
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Facebook's reported plans on Instagram for under-13s pose human rights threatResponse to reports that Facebook is building a version of Instagram for children under 13.
Press release 19 Mar 2021 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Four of five families freed from detention
Four of five families freed from detention.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Feb 2021 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Pastor Steven Tendo released from detention
Steven Tendo, 35-year-old pastor and asylum-seeker, released from detention.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Feb 2021 -
USA: President Biden must close Guantánamo Bay, end 20 years of human rights abusesReports state the Biden administration has launched a formal review of the future of Guantánamo Bay.
Press release 12 Feb 2021 -
US: Halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia a 'big step' - but more must be donePress release 04 Feb 2021 -
Global: Fresh evidence of police misuse of tear gas - updated investigative websitePress release 01 Feb 2021 -
Yemen: Biden's temporary suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and UAE 'a welcome relief'President Biden’s decision represents a welcome relief in an otherwise shameful chapter of history.
Press release 28 Jan 2021 -
Urgent Action outcome: Thirteen federal executions in six months
Three people, including one woman, were executed in the last week of the Trump administration.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jan 2021 -
USA: oversight report on migrant family separations proves 'cruelty was the point'Response to a report from the US Department of Justice’s Inspector General Michael E Horowitz showing that the department - and in particular then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions - was a driving force behind the “zero tolerance” separation policy that…
Press release 14 Jan 2021 -
USA: letter to 3,500 mayors and governors calls for tighter security ahead of inaugurationIn response to the events of last week and in anticipation of more gatherings by white supremacists ahead of the inauguration, Amnesty International USA has sent a letter to 3,500 US mayors and governors calling on them to protect people from armed…
Press release 13 Jan 2021 -
USA: Joe Biden must close Guantánamo - new reportUS President-elect Joe Biden should close the US military detention centre at Guantánamo Bay when he assumes the presidency later this month, said Amnesty International, as the organisation published a new report marking the 19th anniversary of the…
Press release 10 Jan 2021 -
USA: 'Moment of reckoning' as President Trump incites violence at the Capitol'President Trump has repeatedly encouraged violence and disorder by his supporters. These are not the actions of a leader, but an instigator' - Bob Goodfellow
Press release 07 Jan 2021 -
USA: Trump should grant clemency to federal death row prisonersPress release 06 Jan 2021
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Somalia: US must not abandon civilian victims of its air strikes after troop withdrawalAmnesty warns troop withdrawal does not necessarily mean end to military action
Press release 07 Dec 2020 -
USA: State Department's attack on BDS movement violates free speechResponse to the US State Department designating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement antisemitic earlier today
Press release 19 Nov 2020 -
USA: $2.9bn drones sale to UAE should be haltedResponse to plans by the United States to sell 18 armed aerial drones worth approximately $2.9bn to the United Arab Emirates.
Press release 09 Nov 2020 -
UK/USA: letter to US ambassador Woody Johnson warns of election violenceAmnesty International UK has written to the US Ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, warning of the risk of violence during next week’s presidential election.
Press release 30 Oct 2020 -
USA: policy to separate migrant families amounted to 'torture'Response to the findings of a 21-month investigation by the US House Judiciary Committee into the Trump administration’s family separation policy - which resulted in more than 2,500 migrant children being separated from their parents.
Press release 29 Oct 2020 -
USA: police have failed to protect protesters from violence - new reportLaw-enforcement agencies across the USA are failing to facilitate people’s fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly or to protect protests and counter-protests from violent disruption by armed groups.
Press release 23 Oct 2020
