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The inhumane treatment and mass deportations of Haitian migrants are another chapter in America’s history of anti-Black racism, a new report by Amnesty International finds. The report was published on the one-year anniversary of the publication of viral photos and videos that show U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents flinging reins at the Black migrants […]
When Alyssa Serrano MAIPD ’22 starts her career this fall as a program officer at a Washington, D.C.–based resettlement agency, she’ll bring a wealth of firsthand experience. The 2022 International Policy and Development alum and Coverdell Fellow helped resettle Afghan refugees with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and, most recently, completed a Jan Knippers Black […]
Drawing on a traditional form of popular protest across the world, demonstrators will bang pots and pans outside Congress from 11:30am-12:30pm on Thursday September 22 to call for an end to the anti-Black and traumatic ill-treatment of Haitian asylum seekers by US authorities, which amounts to race-based torture under international human rights law. There will […]
The right to protest is under unprecedented and growing threat across all regions of the world, Amnesty International said today, as the organization launched a new global campaign to confront states’ widening and intensifying efforts to erode this fundamental human right. From Russia to Sri Lanka, France to Senegal, and Iran to Nicaragua, state authorities are […]
The right to protest is under unprecedented and growing threat across all regions of the world, Amnesty International said today, as the organization launched a new global campaign to confront states’ widening and intensifying efforts to erode this fundamental human right. From Russia to Sri Lanka, France to Senegal, and Iran to Nicaragua, state authorities […]
The death toll continues to rise. At least 23 people died last Friday trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco. Some organisations working on the ground have put the death toll at 37. Their bodies await burial in hastily dug graves. But as far as we know, none of them have been […]
Amnesty International UK is “institutionally racist”, “colonialist” and faces bullying problems within its own ranks, a damning inquiry has concluded. Initial findings of Global HPO’s independent inquiry into the charity were published in April but now the scale of the organisation’s issues with race have been laid bare in their final report. Released to Amnesty […]
Ottawa ON, March 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Amnesty International announced its support to the Black Class Action’s landmark pursuit of justice for current and former Black members of the federal public service. “For too long, Black employees have faced dehumanizing experiences of racist exclusion at the hands of the government. Amnesty International supports […]
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Amnesty International USA welcomes the Biden administration’s initial efforts to welcome Ukrainians through a special parole program, and we urge the U.S. to do more to adequately address the urgent needs of Ukrainians and all people fleeing conflict, including Afghans and other Black and Brown communities in need of protection and direct support from the […]