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Responding to news that all 20 recommendations of the report of the Religious Freedoms Review have been leaked to media, Amnesty International Australia’s Advocacy Manager Emma Bull said: “The Ruddock Review has made 20 recommendations when it really only needed to make one to have the same outcome: implement a national Human Rights Act. What …
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Reverend John Jegasothy and his family sought safety in Australia, after fleeing Sri Lanka’s civil war. Today he is a community leader in Sydney helping to promote a fair go for refugees. Story as told to Annika Flensburg. Fleeing Sri Lanka When Sri Lanka’s civil war started, I was working as a Superintendent Minister in …
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The US government has deliberately adopted immigration policies and practices that caused catastrophic harm to thousands of people seeking safety in the United States, including the separation of over 6,000 family units in a four-month period, more than previously disclosed by authorities, Amnesty International said in a new report released today. USA: ‘You Don’t Have Any …
Responding to news that parts of the report of the Religious Freedoms Review has been leaked to media, particularly the recommendation that religious schools be allowed to reject LGBT students and teachers, Amnesty International Australia’s Advocacy Manager Emma Bull said, “Amnesty International is alarmed that the Australian Government might use the cloak of the Religious …
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Fifteen years ago, a young man named Witek met a young woman named Joanna at a festival in Warsaw, Poland. Joanna had just returned from traveling through Africa, where she’d seen activists organising 24-hour marathon events to protest government’s abusing human rights. Witek invited Joanna to a meeting of his local Amnesty action group, and …
Climate change is one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time, says Savio Carvalho, Senior Advisor on International Development and Human Rights. What has climate change got to do with human rights? Extreme weather-related disasters and rising seas will destroy homes and ruin people’s ability to earn a living. What’s more, unless emissions …
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A proposed change in the definition of family in Romania’s Constitution could lead to a breach of international human rights law and increase discrimination against LGBTI people in the country, said Amnesty International ahead of a referendum this weekend. Just 17 years after the country decriminalized same-sex sexual relations, Romanians will vote on whether to …
In response to the decision of the Preparatory Trial Court of the Supreme Court of Justice to overturn the pardon granted to former President Alberto Fujimori on 24 December 2017, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said: “The court’s ruling is a victory for the victims of the serious human rights violations that former …
Only a minority of Australians are aware of the biggest human rights catastrophe in our region – the Myanmar military’s ethnic cleansing of the country’s Rohingya population – and even fewer know that Australia is helping to prop up the murderous regime perpetrating it, a new poll carried out on behalf of Amnesty International has …
‘Boy or girl?’ is often the first question people ask parents about their baby. It’s a question based on the assumption that the world is divided into two groups of people, male and female. But that’s not always the case. Worldwide, every year, an estimated 1.7% of children are born with variations of sex characteristics. …
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