Amnesty International and the United States

Amnesty International has received reports that in recent days Mexican immigration officials have detained and sought to deport Central American families from the caravan who planned to claim asylum in the USA. On 23 April, the US Department of Homeland Security also issued a vindictive statement ...

The Turkish authorities told Amnesty International that all these returns are voluntary, and that the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has periodic access to places of detention. ... “They don't say to us that we will be deported – they say nothing – they invite people to their offices and they take their fingerprints.

Malagasy authorities must ensure a prompt, thorough and impartial investigation into the killing of two demonstrators in Antananarivo and perpetrators must be brought to book, Amnesty International said today. The investigation's report should be made public. Members of the security forces present at the ...

'Seeking asylum is not a crime in the USA or anywhere' - Erika Guevara-Rosas. The US and Mexican authorities must stop demonising members of a travelling migrant “caravan” from Central America and respect their fundamental right to seek asylum, said Amnesty International today, ahead of their ...

Previous assertions from State Department officials and reports of directives to remove passages on issues like reproductive rights and discrimination indicate that the department's newly-published annual assessment of human rights around the world downplays numerous human rights violations.

(CNN) Amnesty International awarded Colin Kaepernick its Ambassador of Conscience Award on Saturday for his public protest against racial and ... and regular-season games in protest of police shootings of African-American men and other social injustices faced by black people in the United States.

Joanne Lin, national director of advocacy and governmental relations at Amnesty International USA, issued this statement: “From the beginning, this Administration has sent the message that the United States will no longer prioritize efforts to hold the global community to account for human rights. Reports of ...

Responding to the 30-year jail sentence handed to Mohammed Jabateh, a former Liberian war lord known as “Jungle Jabbah” now living in the US, for immigration fraud and perjury due to failure to disclose his involvement in human rights abuses during the Liberian civil war, Amnesty International's West ...

Since the start of the so-called “War on Terror” the USA has carried out hundreds of lethal drone strikes in at least seven countries (Afghanistan, Pakistan ... Amnesty International and others have exposed how some drone strikes have violated international law, and may amount to extrajudicial executions or ...