Amnesty International

Global Civil Society Develops Standardized Resistance Documentation Protocol

| Importance: 8/10

International NGOs and human rights organizations convened to establish a comprehensive, transnational documentation framework for tracking and resisting democratic backsliding. The protocol creates systematic methodologies for collecting, verifying, and rapidly disseminating evidence of …

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Raytheon-Manufactured Bomb Kills 80 at Yemen Detention Center in Worst Attack in Three Years

| Importance: 10/10

On January 21, 2022, a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a detention facility in Sa’adah, northwestern Yemen, killing at least 80 people and wounding over 200 in what the United Nations described as the “worst civilian-casualty incident in the last three years in Yemen.” Amnesty …

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Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients

| Importance: 10/10

The Pegasus Project, a groundbreaking collaborative investigation by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations across 10 countries coordinated by Paris-based Forbidden Stories with technical support from Amnesty International, reveals that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been used …

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Raytheon GBU-12 Bomb Kills Six Civilians Including Three Children in Yemen Village Attack

| Importance: 9/10

On June 28, 2019, a Saudi-led coalition airstrike struck a village in Yemen’s Dhamar governorate, killing six civilians including three children, using a weapon identified by Amnesty International as a Raytheon-manufactured GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bomb. The attack occurred just eight …

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Facebook Algorithm Amplifies Myanmar Military Hate Speech Enabling Rohingya Genocide

| Importance: 10/10

Facebook’s engagement-maximizing algorithm proactively amplifies Myanmar military’s anti-Rohingya hate speech and genocide propaganda, directly contributing to systematic ethnic cleansing that kills thousands and displaces over 700,000 Rohingya Muslims. The platform’s surveillance …

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Raytheon Paveway Bomb Strikes MSF Hospital in Yemen, Killing 11 Including Healthcare Workers

| Importance: 10/10

At approximately 3:45 PM on August 15, 2016, a Saudi-led coalition airstrike struck the Abs Hospital in Yemen’s Hajjah governorate, killing at least 11 people including an MSF staff member and injuring at least 19 others. The hospital was clearly marked as a medical facility and Médecins Sans …

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