Afghanistan Since seizing control of Afghanistan in August 2022, the Taliban have mounted a sustained attack on human rights, persecuting minority groups, violently clamping down on peaceful protests, and using extrajudicial executions and disappearances to spread fear among Afghans. Repeated promises to uphold the rights of women and girls were quickly broken as the Taliban […]
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Close Guantanamo!
The incoming administration in the US represents a fresh opportunity to press for closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Forty men continue to be held there, with their lives in limbo despite court orders for many of them to be released. Some have been held for almost 20 years.
Amnesty has released new research on the ongoing human rights violations at Guantanamo Bay.
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Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled their homes in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State after the military unleashed a brutal campaign of violence against them. Nearly one million live in the threadbare camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh where the conditions are made even more difficult by the COVID 19 pandemic.