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NYC Learns the Difference Between Bananas and Guns
This week, Amnesty International activists went bananas in New York City’s Times Square to tell New Yorkers why the upcoming Arms Trade Treaty talks at the UN are so important to protecting human...
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Historic Arms Trade Treaty in the Balance
Amnesty activists descended on Times Square the week before Arms Trade Treaty talks began in New York. © Bob Scott Earlier this week, world leaders officially opened the negotiations at the UN to forge...
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Fact vs Fiction: Arms Trade Treaty and Gun Ownership in the US
Countries in several parts of the world grapple with the horrific problem of the use of child soldiers exacerbated by the unregulated flow of weapons. © AFP/Getty Images As world leaders meet in New...
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US Joins Russia and China in Trying to Weaken Arms Trade Treaty
Right now, weapons have weaker trade regulations than bananas. Many governments and most U.S. allies agree with human rights groups that the Arms Trade Treaty should not permit weapons exports where...
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10 Years of Campaigning, Three Days Left to Change the World
Amadou Maiga from Mali, who has lost friends in conflict, spoke in front of a mock graveyard across from the United Nations which represents those killed by arms everyday around the world. (Control...
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US Spoils Arms Trade Talks for Now, But Fight Goes On
Amnesty activists descended on Times Square the week before Arms Trade Treaty talks began in New York. (c) Bob Scott After years of campaigning and weeks of negotiations, the Obama Administration...
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3 Things You Should Know about Mali and the International Criminal Court
The ICC has announced it will open an investigation into crimes under international law committed in the year-long Mali conflict.© ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/GettyImages By Kathryn Striffolino, Advocate and...
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The Road Forward in Egypt Begins By Ending Police Impunity
Egyptian protesters shout slogans against President Mohamed Morsi during a demonstration outside the high court in central Cairo on January 30, 2013. (Photo KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images) Before...
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Child Soldiers: Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?
Child soldier with adults, Sanghe, Democratic Republic of Congo, June 2002. By Angela T. Chang, Advocate, Crisis Prevention and Response Team, Amnesty International USA When a little boy is kidnapped,...
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Is U.S. Trying To Gut Arms Trade Treaty?
The US is trying to strip the Arms Trade Treaty of critical human rights protections. This post is part of a special series on the Arms Trade Treaty. From March 18-28, world leaders from more than 150...
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Did Myanmar President Thein Sein Deserve the Warm Welcome?
The warm White House reception, combined with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s call for the suspension of sanctions on imports from Myanmar, gave President Thein Sein a big boost. Did he...
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Thirteen Reasons for Obama to Sign the Arms Trade Treaty, Five Days Before...
Demonstrators from Amnesty International chant outside the White House in Washington, D.C. as they call for strong support for a comprehensive global Arms Trade Treaty (Photo Credit: Jim...
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7 Recommendations to President Obama on Guantanamo, Torture & Drones
On May 23rd, 2013, President Obama made his first major speech on national security since 2009 (Photo Credit: Getty Images). Today, Amnesty International released in-depth analysis of President Obama’s...
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Egypt: It’s Time to Address Violence Against Women in All its Forms
Whether in the public or private spheres, at the hands of state or non-state actors, violence against women in Egypt continues to go mostly unpunished (Photo Credit: Mahmud Khaled/AFP/Getty Images). By...
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5 Reasons President Obama Should Release Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier Leonard Peltier was a leading member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), an activist group that was involved in promoting the rights of “traditionalist” Indians during a period of...
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Is U.S. Aid Complicit in Egyptian Abuses?
President Barack Obama during his statement on Egypt in Chilmark, Massachusetts on August 15, 2013 (Photo Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images). President Obama, it’s time to stop the export of small...
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WARNING: This Film Will Keep You Up at Night
Writer/director/producer Joshua Oppenheimer of ‘An Act of Killing’ poses at the Guess Portrait Studio during 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo...
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Our Response to President Vladimir Putin’s New York Times Op-Ed
President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin (Photo Credit: Mikhail Kireev/Host Photo Agency via Getty Images). In his New York Times opinion piece regarding Syria, Russian President Vladimir...
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Will Today’s Senate Hearing Help End Gun Violence Against Women?
(Image: Facebook / Everytown for Gun Safety). By Alice Dahle, Co-chair, Amnesty International USA Women’s Human Rights Coordination Group Twenty years ago, Congress passed the Violence Against Women...
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Ferguson: Today marks a pivotal moment for US human rights
Today, we learned that a grand jury in Ferguson decided not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of Michael Brown — an unarmed 18-year-old — in August. The community response...
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