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...
In August 2013, Shawkan was taking photos of a peaceful sit-in when security forces moved in violently.
Amnesty International’s new report, Home Sweet Home? Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador’s Role in a Deepening Refugee Crisis, documents the incredible levels of violence and impunity that ar...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/americas/what-happens-to-deported-central-americans/
Many people have heard of the March 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres, an award-winning environmental and indigenous rights leader in Honduras, and the many threats that proceeded her death. They may...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/uncategorized/why-are-these-heroes-treated-like-criminals/
Having a loved one missing creates a suffering that is unique and different from other kinds of loss. Unlike families who lose a loved one through death, where the loss is clear, the loss of havi...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/could-you-live-with-ambiguous-loss/
The news was hard to take when I first learned of it on 7 July – Chelsea Manning, who publicly stood up and took responsibility for releasing materials she felt would demonstrate the atrocities...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/manning-faces-charges-for-attempting-to-take-her-life/
Amnesty International has issued an Urgent Action in response to the June 21 raid of Impunity Watch's office in Guatemala. Three armed men forced their way into the office and then blindfolded th...
One year ago today, the initial arrests were made of a group of activists in Angola's capital of Luanda. Dubbed the #Angola17, their crime was meeting to read a book and discuss non-violent metho...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/africa/liberation-day-for-angola-join-us-in-demanding-freedom/
By Kathy Peltier, Daughter of Leonard Peltier Today, fathers across the U.S. will be celebrated, spending time with their loved ones and enjoying time with their children. But for me, Father’...
https://blog.amnestyusa.org/us/help-me-free-my-father-leonard-peltier/