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Thailand/Laos: Investigate the Killing of Lao Refugee and Put an End to Transnational Repression of Human Rights Defenders
In response to news on 17 May 2023 of the fatal shooting of Bounsuan Kitiyano, a 56-year-old Lao human rights defender and a refugee recognized the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in a border town in northeastern Thailand, we, the ten undersigned organizations, urge the government of...
Afghanistan: The Taliban’s war on women: The crime against humanity of gender persecution in Afghanistan
After the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021, the human rights situation of women and girls in Afghanistan deteriorated severely, despite the Taliban’s initial promise to respect women’s and girls’ rights. The Taliban have been increasingly introducing new restrictions with the apparent...
Kenya: Kakuma refugee camp complex not yet safe for LGBTI refugees
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers and refugees living in one of Kenya’s biggest refugee camps routinely suffer hate crimes, violence, including rape, and other serious human rights abuses, the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHRC) and...
Kenya: “Justice like any other person” – Hate crimes and discrimination against LGBTI refugees
This joint report by the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International documents the extremely dangerous situation of hate crimes, discrimination and other human rights violations suffered by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers and...
USA: Lives at risk: Barriers and Harms As Biden Asylum Ban Takes Effect
This joint report presents findings and recommendations regarding the end of the Title 42 policy and the implementation of punitive policies along the border, including the Biden administration’s new asylum ban. From May 10 to 12, adelegation of human, civil, and immigrants’ rights leaders saw...
USA: At border, humanitarian delegation witnesses an end of Title 42 without chaos and cruelty of new asylum ban
A delegation of prominent national civil and immigrant rights leaders led by the Haitian Bridge Alliance visited locations in the Texas Rio Grande Valley and the Mexican state of Tamaulipas to bear witness to the end of Title 42 and the implementation of number of punitive policies along the...
USA: Mandatory use of CBP One mobile application violates right to seek asylum
The mandatory use of the CBP One mobile application as the sole means of entering the United States to seek international protection is a clear violation of international human rights law, Amnesty International said today. In a new policy briefing, Amnesty International has raised serious human...
United States of America: Mandatory Use of CBP One Application Violates the Right to Seek Asylum
Title 42 is expected to end on May 11, 2023, in conjunction with the administration of US President Biden ending the national emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In accordance with the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), once Title 42 is terminated, asylum-seekers will be required to use...
Senior leadership delegation from civil and human rights groups to visit US-Mexico border
Led by the Haitian Bridge Alliance, senior leadership of prominent national human, civil and immigrant rights leaders from 11 organizations will travel to the US-Mexico border on May 11 and 12 to bear witness to the end of Title 42 and the anticipated start of new, restrictive border policies which...
USA: New regional migration measures will protect some at the expense of exposing others to greater dangers
In response to the Biden administration’s announcement of new regional migration measures upon the end of Title 42 on 11 May, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said: “Once again the United States is embracing a misguided carrot and stick approach to respond to the...
Peru/Chile: Authorities must end militarization of borders in response to arrival of people in need of protection
In light of the action taken by the governments of Chile and Peru to militarize their borders, and the state of emergency declared yesterday by President Boluarte’s government in Peru in response to the arrival of migrants, largely from Venezuela and Haiti, Amnesty International wishes to...