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Syria: Tens of thousands of disappeared must not be forgotten

Some 75,000 people subjected to enforced disappearance by the Syrian government since 2011 Amnesty launch online platform for families of those abducted “There has been total impunity for those...

Governments out of touch on refugees, World Economic Forum survey reveals

A new survey released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on young peoples’ attitudes towards refugees exposes just how out of touch governments are with their citizens, Amnesty International said today...

Trump’s military transgender policy is cruel and discriminatory

Following President Donald Trump’s signing of a new directive banning future transgender individuals serving in the US military, Tarah Demant, Amnesty International USA’s director of Gender, Sexuality...

Yemen: UN must respond as five children killed in night of horror

An air strike which hit Faj Attan, a residential area of Yemen’s capital Sana’a in the early hours of this morning, destroying three homes, killing ten people and injuring seven more, shows that after...

South Africa: 'hideous' coffin assault case must spur government action on hate crime

In response to the guilty verdict in the coffin assault case by the Middleburg High Court earlier today, Shenilla Mohamed, Amnesty International South Africa Executive Director, said: “This hideous...

Burma: Rakhine attacks mark 'a dangerous escalation in violence'

Responding to the attacks by Rohingya militants in Burma which have left at least 71 people, including 12 security personnel, dead, Josef Benedict, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns Director...

Florida conducts first execution in a year and a half

For the first time since the Supreme Court ruled against the state’s capital sentencing statute, Florida has executed a prisoner, killing Mark Asay via lethal injection. The execution happened late...

UK migration: Government urged to drastically reduce excessive use of detention

Quarterly migration report shows that 27,817 people were detained in the last year “The sheer numbers illustrate how the detention process has become normalised, when it ought to be an exceptional...

Burma: Government must act on Rakhine Commission's recommendations

Reacting to the final report issued today by the Kofi Annan-led Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said: “People in...

Syria: thousands of civilians in Raqqa trapped by three-way fighting - new report

Use the slider below to see satellite imagery showing devastation in Raqqa - June/July 2017 Thousands of civilians trapped in Raqqa in Syria are coming under fire from three different sides, said...