Nine former members of government security forces extrajudicially executed after surrendering. Victims included a 17-year-old girl who was caught in crossfire.
Author Archives: Amnesty International
3 ways you can fight for a free press today
Free press allows journalists and reporters to shine a light on human rights abuses and pressure governments to respect international law.
20 years of Write for Rights: How your words have the power to change lives
Letter writing has always been at the heart of Amnesty’s work, and 60 years of activism shows us that words have power.
International Safe Abortion Day: Celebrating a human right
Today is International Safe Abortion Day. It is the first time Australia has celebrated the day with all states upholding the right to safe and legal abortions, with South Australia only decriminalising abortion this year. Internationally however, reproductive rights remain under threat, as evidenced by the US state of Texas’s recent law outlawing abortion after 6 weeks.
“Sportswashing” and Australian football
Football Australia must sign on to FIFA’s human rights policy.
Emergency update for all Apple users: Everything you need to know about Pegasus Spyware
Updating your phone’s software can sometimes be the last thing on your mind, particularly right now, when updating means losing access to our phone, something no one wants during a lockdown.
However, this recent update is an important security update to ensure your phone isn’t at risk of being exploited by spyware. While it may seem like international spyware is not something you will ever need to worry about, it’s important to know what you can about how surveillance systems can impact you, and why they’re central to human rights.
“Being Bisexual”
Hannah Wahlsten’s personal experience of what it means to be bisexual in celebration of Bisexual Awareness Week.
New report shows leading Covid-19 vaccine pharma companies fuelling unprecedented human rights crisis
Six companies at the helm of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out are fuelling an unprecedented human rights crisis through their refusal to waive intellectual property rights and share vaccine technology, with most failing to prioritise vaccine deliveries to poorer countries, Amnesty International said today.
Peace cannot be achieved in Papua if human rights are not respected
esian government must address past human rights violations and ensure that they are not repeated if they want to achieve peace in Papua and West Papua, Amnesty International Indonesia and Amnesty International Australia said today.
Afghanistan: Taliban wasting no time in stamping out human rights
The Taliban are steadily dismantling the human rights gains of the last twenty years, said Amnesty International, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) in a new briefing published today, which documents the group’s wide-ranging crackdown since their seizure of Kabul little more than five weeks ago.