The Intersection of Statelessness and Refugee Protection in US Asylum Policy
Executive Summary More than ten million people are stateless today. In a world of nation states, they live on the margins without membership in any state, and, as a consequence, have few enforceable legal rights. Stateless individuals face gaps in protection and in many cases experience persecution that falls within the refugee paradigm. However, US … Continue reading The Intersection of Statelessness and Refugee Protection in US Asylum Policy →
Iraq: in the shadow of war: backlash against human rights
Since the military action by the USA, UK, and their allies began in Iraq on 20 March, a backlash against certain human rights has been witnessed around the world. These include attacks on the rights to freedom of expression and assembly; excessive use of force by police against anti-war demonstrators and restriction of asylum rights. … Continue reading Iraq: in the shadow of war: backlash against human rights →
United States of America: Amnesty International’s concerns regarding post September 11 detentions in the USA
In the two months following the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, more than 1, 200 non-US nationals were taken into custody in the USA, in nationwide sweeps for possible suspects. Partial data released by the government last November revealed that most were men of Arab or South Asian origin detained … Continue reading United States of America: Amnesty International’s concerns regarding post September 11 detentions in the USA →
United States of America: memorandum to the US Government on the rights of people in US custody in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay
More than one thousand foreign nationals were arrested and detained in the USA in post-11 September sweeps, and a great many people were taken into US custody in Afghanistan and elsewhere outside the USA, some 300 of these had been transferred to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba at the time of … Continue reading United States of America: memorandum to the US Government on the rights of people in US custody in Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay →
United States of America: imminent deportations threaten to undermine integrity of investigation into abuses at Krome
Two female detainees allegedly abused by officers at the Krome Service Processing Center are facing imminent deportation despite the ongoing and, as yet, incomplete investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and harassment at Krome
United States of America: memorandum to the US Attorney General: Amnesty International’s concerns relating to the post-11 September investigations
More than 1, 100 people, mainly non-US nationals, have been taken into custody in the USA during the investigations into the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001. Many of them have reportedly been held under new government powers to detain people for questioning for an extended period before … Continue reading United States of America: memorandum to the US Attorney General: Amnesty International’s concerns relating to the post-11 September investigations →
United States of America: rights for all
This report focuses on several areas where the authorities have failed to prevent repeated violations of basic human rights: the right to freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, the right to life and the right to freedom from arbitrary detention. It shows that police officers, prison guards, immigration and other officials in … Continue reading United States of America: rights for all →
United States of America: breaking the chain: the human rights of women prisoners
Includes an overview of the detention of female asylum-seekers
USA: lost in the labyrinth: detention of asylum-seekers: summary report
This document is a summary of a 93-page document of the same title (AI Index: AMR 51/51/99). This summary highlights Amnesty International’s main concerns regarding the detention of asylum-seekers in the USA and outlines some individual cases. More detailed background information, analysis and cases can be found in the full-length report.
USA: lost in the labyrinth: detention of asylum-seekers
This document states that the INS detention system is seriously flawed. Until and unless key US officials recognize their country’s obligations under international law and take steps to change that system radically, abuses such as those which Amnesty International outlines in this report will inevitably continue.
