A mere two days after millions of people marched around the word with and in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, President Donald J. Trump announced the “Global Gag Rule,” a ma...
By Ann Burroughs, Chair of AIUSA’s Board of Directors Donald Trump has made it clear he wants bring back torture. “We should go much stronger than waterboarding,” he said last year, calling...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/trumps-cia-pick-must-disavow-torture-and-commit-to-upholding-the-law/
Next month Congress will get to interview nominees for the incoming Trump administration. These cabinet nominees are important indicators as to whether his administration will be uphold and prote...
Sex work is criminalized throughout the United States, typically as misdemeanor offenses. Similar to the way the Unites States treats and criminalizes drug use, the policing of sex work exacerbat...
This Tuesday, the legislature in Ohio passed a ban on abortion as soon as the fetus’ heartbeat can be detected.
Non-violent Indigenous People opposed to the Dakota Access pipeline have been met with over-militarized policing and excessive, disproportionate and unnecessary military force.
Thirty-five years. That is the length of prison time that Chelsea Manning was sentenced to back in 2013 for publically releasing classified information, in the hopes of starting a conversation re...
I’m an LC in Vermont and, like my colleagues, I’m busy saying “I Welcome.”
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/why-i-decide-to-say-i-welcome-to-refugees/
We will fight any attempt to put President-elect Trump’s hateful, poisonous campaign rhetoric into policy.
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/update-on-amnestys-post-election-strategy-and-work/
Already in the U.S. there have been reports of a spike in hate-driven actions and threats. This is not a coincidence - it is further proof that Trump’s irresponsible proposals must never become...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/six-trump-proposals-that-must-never-become-policy/