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A crucial resolution adopted at the UN Human Rights Council yesterday offered the victims of Sri Lanka’s armed conflict the prospect of finally getting the truth and justice they deserve. The resolution was adopted without a vote at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, following the publication earlier this month of a UN report …
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Amnesty’s Refugee Campaigner Graeme McGregor describes the work that goes on behind the scenes in our struggle to protect the rights of refugees. The power of a photo The tragic image of toddler Aylan Kurdi, who was washed ashore on a beach in Turkey this month, marked a tipping point in Syria’s refugee crisis. A …
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From Greece to Germany, volunteers are joining forces to help newly-arrived refugees and migrants get food, clothes and medical attention – plugging glaring gaps in the European Union’s broken asylum system while Europe’s leaders still grapple for a common solution to the growing crisis. Treating refugees as people “There was this Syrian family: a father …
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In the lead up to World Press Freedom Day, the parents of Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste, who was recently released from prison in Egypt, remain concerned about his colleagues Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy. As we proudly watched our son Peter Greste finally speak outside the Tora fortress that had been his prison for …
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Decades of poorly regulated arms flows into Iraq as well lax controls on the ground have provided the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) with a large and lethal arsenal that is being used to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity on a massive scale in Iraq and Syria. Unprecendented access to firepower …
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The Syrian war has been going on for four years – it’s time for the Prime Minister to show some humanity and for Australia to accept its fair share of people fleeing conflict. Heartbreaking stories In the last week, the world’s eyes have been opened to the huge number of people escaping the horror of …
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The scale and rapid succession of the tragedies in Europe can no longer be ignored. Amnesty’s Gauri van Gulik urges Europe to end the shameful treatment of refugees with a continent-wide effort. Lives cut short by tragedy A solemn moment of silence. The world over, this is the traditional response when lives are cut short …
Dear journalists, Please stop referring to refugees in Europe as ‘migrants’. Please, please, please. I know you’re just taking your cue from the European newswires. I get it. But you need to do some find-and-replacing on that stuff before it goes to air/print. It may seem like a small thing, but it’s not. It’s important. …
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Amnesty International’s Secretary General reflects on our new report on the mounting threat and violence facing those on the front line standing up for women’s rights in Afghanistan. In Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province, Shah Bibi is the director of the Department of Women’s Affairs, and continues her work to strengthen women’s rights despite multiple death threats …
