In response to unconfirmed reports that the Biden administration is considering holding Haitian asylum seekers in a third country or expanding capacity at an existing facility at the US detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International said:...

Mamadou Konaté is a migrant worker from Ivory Coast who has lived in Canada for over six years who was at imminent risk of deportation on 5 October. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he worked in facilities accompanying vulnerable seniors. Following a decision by the Federal Court on 30 September,...

In response to the Biden Administration’s announcement about a new process for Venezeulans seeking safety, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International said, “Within days of the Interagency Coordination for Refugees and Migrants R4V revealing that there are 7.1 million...

In order to fight inequality and discrimination, governments in the Americas must adopt all measures necessary to ensure full enjoyment of economic, social, and cultural rights in the region, Amnesty International said today in an open letter to the heads of state who will attend the 52nd General...

US authorities have subjected Haitian asylum seekers to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill-treatment that amounts to race-based torture, said Amnesty International today in the new report, ‘They Did Not Treat Us Like People’: Race and Migration-Related Torture and Other...

One year after painful and overtly racist images emerged from Del Rio, Texas, in which US Border Patrol officials mounted on horseback used excessive force against Black Haitians asylum seekers invoking associations with slavery, this report details the on-going arbitrary detention, mass expulsions...

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...

This report reveals how Turkish and Iranian security forces have unlawfully returned Afghan men, women and children to their country, despite the general situation in Afghanistan and the real risk of serious human rights violations there. Iranian and Turkish authorities have also denied Afghans the...

Amnesty International calls on the UN Refugee Agency to take immediate actions to ensure the safety and protection of Saiful Arakani, 26, a Rohingya youth and his family members, by investigating the allegations of harassment by state and non-state actors and call on Bangladeshi authorities to...

Their story begins with them fleeing mass violations of human rights. It continues at the border, where they face requirements that are impossible to meet while seeking protection. While en route to a new home they face harassment, robbery, extortion, and exploitation. Upon arrival they have to...

Mohamed Benhlima is an activist, former military official and whistleblower who exposed alleged corruption by high-ranking Algerian military officials online. He sought asylum in Spain but the Spanish authorities refouled him to Algeria in March 2022. The Algerian authorities subjected him to...

Facts about Venezuelan people on the move: As of May 2022, more than 6 million Venezuelans have left their country. Of these, more than 5 million are currently in another country in Latin American. Colombia and Peru have received the largest number of Venezuelan refugees: 1.84 million people in...