Amnesty International USA

Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim remains detained in Guanánamo without charge or trial after eight years, despite the fact that a US federal judge ordered his release in 2009. The Obama administration has appealed the judge's ruling. Urge the administration to drop the appeal, and to immediately release Saeed Hatim.

Amnesty International is concerned about the ways Microsoft may be aiding the repression of freedom to information and expression in China. According to recent reports, Microsoft's search engine blocks searches under key words such as "freedom", "democracy", "human rights", "Falun Gong", and "demonstration", among others. Users of Microsoft Spaces are also prohibited from using these and other words on the weblogs they create.

Domestic worker Rizana Nafeek was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for a murder committed when she was just 17 years old. Saudi Arabia is a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which expressly prohibits the execution of offenders for crimes committed when they were under 18 years old. The case has been sent to the King for ratification of the death sentence; if the King does ratify the death sentence, Rizana Nafeek will be at imminent risk of execution by beheading.

Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist, is serving a ten-year prison sentence for sending an email to the United States. Call on Chinese authorities to release Shi Tao.

Prageeth Eknaligoda, a Sri Lankan journalist and political analyst, went missing shortly after leaving work in Homagama, Sri Lanka on January 24th, 2010.

No physical evidence, alleged police coercion, prosecutorial misconduct, a ‘stacked’ jury. Stop the execution of Reggie Clemons!

More than 1.5 million Palestinian men, women, and children have been trapped in the Gaza Strip for over three years by the Israeli blockade. Call on President Obama to urge Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza.

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Liu Xiaobo was given an 11-year prison sentence simply for co-authoring a proposal for political and legal reform in China. Urge Chinese authorities to release Liu Xiaobo.

Under international law, the former President's admission to having authorized acts that amount to torture are enough to trigger the USA's obligations to investigate his admissions and if substantiated, to prosecute him.

Acclaimed film director Jafar Panahi has been sentenced to six years in prison plus a twenty-year total ban on all artistic activities, solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.

Call on the U.S. government to support an international war crimes investigation in Sri Lanka.

Recently, the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act became law. It will help ensure medical treatment and compensation for 9/11 responders and other survivors. Urge Congress to it fully.

Call on Swaziland to ensure Wandile Dludlu’s right to remedy for torture and unlawful detention, including access to justice, compensation and guarantees of non-repetition.

Call on the Sri Lankan government to immediately release thousands of Tamil detainees or charge them with recognizable crimes.

Guantanamo detainees Fawzi al-Odah and Fayiz al-Kandari have been held without charge for nine years. The Kuwaiti government has requested their return. Urge the US to charge or release them.

Maher Arar suffered torture because of the actions of U.S. officials. An apology is long overdue. Urge President Obama and Congress to apologize to Maher Arar and fulfill his right to remedy.

Call on authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to immediately release Walid Yunis Ahmad.

Without accountability for past abuses by the security forces, it's likely that the cycle of promises and disappointments that marked the Mubarak years will be repeated.

On the fifth anniversary of the sexual assaults by police on the women of Atenco in 2006, call on Mexico's Attorney General to ensure that all those responsible for are brought to justice.

Hundreds of farmers have been forcibly evicted from their land and homes in an effort by the Orissa government to acquire land for a massive steel plant. Thousands more are at risk.

Toxic waste from a Vedanta Aluminum refinery in Lanjigarh, Orissa threatens to breach its containment pond when the monsoon arrives. The lives, health and livelihoods of 4,000+ families are at risk

Join us in calling on the President of Uzbekistan to immediately and unconditionally release Human Rights Defenders Alisher Karamatov and Azam Farmonov.

Join us in calling on the President of Honduras to protect the members and leaders of the Garifuna community, and ensure that those responsible for previous threats be brought to justice.

Join us in calling on the President of Turkmenistan to promptly and unconditionally release Annakurban Amanklychev and Sapardurdy Khadzhiev.

Join us in calling on the Attorney General of Guatemala to investigate the death threats against human rights defender Norma Cruz, and to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.

Join us in calling on the Romanian authorities to provide the Roma community next to the sewage treatment plant with adequate alternative housing options and to put an end to all forced evictions.

Congress is on the verge of voting for legislation that would make indefinite detention and unfair trials at Guantanamo permanent. Tell them NO

Join us in calling on the Mexican authorities to guarantee the safety of journalist and human rights defender Lydia Cacho.

With the new government in Turkey promising to introduce important constitutional changes, now is the time to adopt comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation to protect the rights of all LGBT people in Turkey.

Call on the current UN Security Council Members Brazil, South Africa, and India to condemn the human rights crisis in Syria by supporting the current draft Security Council resolution.

Urge Secretary Clinton to redouble U.S. commitments to stop violence against women in DRC and issue a progress report on her efforts to date.

The Saudi Arabian people's human rights and freedom of expression cannot be eroded in the name of countering terrorism. We must contest this law!

Join us in calling on the Mexican authorities to guarantee the safety of human rights defender Padre Alejandro Solalinde.

12 million residents live in Egypt's hazardous slums; many are regularly subjected to unlawful forced evictions in which they lose their meager livelihoods and are threatened with arbitrary arrest under repressive emergency legislation if they dare to protest.

The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that the state government of Chhattisgarh must disband all state-sponsored anti-Maoist civil militias. These groups are guilty of widespread human rights violations.

In Iran, students continue to face egregious forms of repression and human rights abuses, as the Iranian authorities attempt to exert control over students opposed to their policies. Those who dare speak out do so at great risk and with devastating consequences.

Call on Sierra Leone’s Minister of Health to ensure that the free health care policy works for all women and girls.

Sanjiv and four other students have disappeared after being arrested by security forces in Nepal. Demand justice and truth from the authorities!

Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer has been held without charge for 10 years. The US must either charge Aamer with a crime or release him.

Syrian authorities’ crackdown on dissent is not just confined to Syria. Peaceful protesters globally have been systematically monitored and harassed by embassy officials and others believed to be acting on behalf of the regime.

With former president Jean-Claude Duvalier’s return the Haitian State is confronted to observe its obligations under international law to investigate the crimes committed under Duvalier’s government and prosecute those responsible for the crimes. AI joins survivors, victims’ families and local NGOs in their interest that justice be served.

Call on the government of Cambodia to issue clear and unambiguous instructions prohibiting forced evictions.

Urge Congress to cosponsor new legislation that would suspend the sale of military weapons and equipment to Bahrain.

Syrian authorities have turned hospitals and medical staff into instruments of repression in their efforts to crush the unprecedented mass protests and demonstrations. People wounded in protests have been verbally abused and physically assaulted in state-run hospitals.

Ask the Sri Lankan government to bring the killers of Ragihar Manoharan and four other Sri Lankan students to justice.

Call on Shell to OWN UP to the reality of pollution in the Niger Delta, and PAY UP for the costs of a CLEAN UP operation.

Lingaram Kodopi and Soni Sodi have been jailed in Chhattisgarh on false charges of aiding armed Maoist insurgents. AI believes they are in jail for highlighting HR violations by state security forces

Egypt's military rulers must stop attacks on protesters and end unfair trials of civilians before military courts.

Dow Chemical is providing the high-profile stadium wrap for the 2012 London Olympics despite having failed to address concerns about the world’s worst industrial disaster, the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal, India

Native American and Alaska Native women in the United States face domestic and sexual violence at epidemic proportions. Call on your Senator to pass S. 1763, the SAVE Native Women Act now!

Members of the women's rights organization Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) demand all Zimbabweans be treated with love. Help them show the government the power of love is greater than the love of power.

Call on the Obama administration and Congress to urgently step up their efforts to address the foreclosure crisis, including by seriously considering a foreclosure moratorium and establishing a housing finance system that fulfills human rights obligations.

Iranian-American Amir Hekmati was sentenced to death for espionage after an unfair trial in a Revolutionary Court and after a suspect confession was aired on Iranian television.

Call on authorities in Louisiana to grant clemency to Christi Cheramie, sentenced at only 16 years of age to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The Egyptian military government is attacking protestors in the streets. It is time for the U.S. to stop supplying the weapons.

Abhay Sahoo and Narayan Reddy have been jailed in the eastern state of Orissa on charges intended to silence a campaign against forcible land acquisition to make way for a $12b steel plant

Peaceful activists in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have been threatened by police with death, life in prison, and detention without charge for opposing nuclear installations.

The appeal hearing of two former leaders of the Bahrain Teachers Association continues on February 19, 2011. Amnesty International believes they may be prisoners of conscience.

Pressure the SEC to ensure that corporations disclose the human rights abuses lurking in their product supply chains -- a key step to ending the cycle of violence in the Congo.

One year after Egypt's Jan. 25 uprising, a free and independent judiciary is as far away as ever.

After flying to the Manila domestic airport terminal from Zamboanga City on 3 January, Najir Ahung, Rasbi Kasaran and Yusoph Mohammad were apprehended by military intelligence agents, according to a credible local source. The three men, residents of Al-Barka municipality in the conflict-affected island of Basilan, have not been seen or heard from since. Amnesty International fears that they are being detained incommunicado by the military, and are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

The new Minister of Justice appointed on 13 January has said that he intends to resume executions. The estimated 130 death row inmates are now at greater risk of execution.

Kartam Joga has been in jail in Chhattisgarh since September 2010 for his non-violent activism on behalf of local adivasis. The state government hasn’t cooperated with requests to investigate the case

When you log onto Facebook or check your email, you probably don't think twice about sharing your life's latest updates with loved ones.

Years of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have made impunity the rule rather than the exception. Most violations have not been investigated, those responsible have not been prosecuted and victims have been denied justice and redress.

An estimated 300,000 foreign domestic workers in Malaysia often face serious exploitation and abuse. These workers are unable to seek legal redress against their employers or recruitment agents.

Robert Waterhouse, a 65-year-old man, is scheduled to be executed in Florida on February 15 for a murder committed in January 1980. At the time of his trial, DNA technology did not exist. Mr. Waterhouse maintains his innocence, and sought DNA testing of evidence, but all useful evidence in the case has been destroyed. Call for this death sentence to be commuted.

Love doesn't discriminate -- and neither should leaders in Cameroon. No one should be arrested because of their sexual orientation!

Syria's strongest foreign backer, Russia, is central to stopping the bloodbath that could occur if Syria's assault Homs continues. Call on Russia to help end the crisis in Syria.

Call on the King of Bahrain to protect the rights of Bahrainis to assemble, speak, and protest government policies. Bahrainis who choose to exercise their basic human rights should not face the risk of government violence.