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Amnesty International Australia has launched its 2017 Media Awards recognising excellence in reporting on human rights issues in the Australian media. See above for this year’s ad, featuring some of last year’s finalists. Journalists, photographers, cartoonists and their editors and producers are invited to enter items published or broadcast between 1 August 2016 and …
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United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its allied Yemeni security forces are alleged to be arbitrarily detaining and torturing detainees, who are also being interrogated by US forces in a network of secret prisons across Southern Yemen. Following these allegations arising from an Associated Press investigation, Lynn Maalouf, Director of Research at Amnesty International in the …
“It’s called ‘shaking the house’. In Iran there is a custom that before the New Year people must clean the house upside down. Shake the carpet, clean everything, and paint the wall. Everything is sparkling and polished. Everyone wears their new clothes. Even the poorest people buy something new. People try to help others that …
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At our June meeting the National Board was excited to note our the progress being made across the whole of AIA toward reaching our 2020 Vision. In particular, the wins in our Community is Everything campaign are a powerful demonstration of what a strong human rights movement in Australia can achieve. Successful Branch AGMs were …
The moment you step outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, the first thing that strikes you are the roses. They are everywhere – lining the dusty motorway into town, clustering flowerbeds in traffic circles, blooming in private gardens. The second thing you see is fear. Foreigners hide behind their sandbagged walls, barbed wire, armed guards …
The US-led coalition’s use of white phosphorus munitions on the outskirts of al-Raqqa, Syria is unlawful and may amount to a war crime, Amnesty International can confirm after verifying five videos of the incident. The videos, published online on 8 and 9 June, showed the coalition’s artillery strike using the munitions over the civilian neighbourhoods …
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Hundreds of peaceful anti-corruption protesters in Russia’s two largest cities have been subjected to cruel and degrading treatment in police detention over the past 48 hours as authorities continue their crackdown on participants of mass rallies that took place across the country on 12 June. “The Russian authorities have used mass detentions as a tactic …
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Civilians from minority ethnic groups suffer appalling violations and abuses, including war crimes, at the hands of Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups in the country’s Kachin and northern Shan states, Amnesty International’s new report reveals. ‘All the Civilians Suffer’: Conflict, Displacement and Abuse in Northern Myanmar’ details how soldiers from the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s …
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Civilians from minority ethnic groups suffer appalling violations and abuses, including war crimes, at the hands of Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups in the country’s Kachin and northern Shan states, Amnesty International said in a new report based on three recent visits to the conflict area. ‘All the Civilians Suffer’: Conflict, Displacement and Abuse …
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Responding to the news that on the basis of counter-terrorism the Australian Government is seeking changes to the law to allow authorities to decrypt communications, Amnesty International Australia’s Campaigns Manager Michael Hayworth said, “There are few more important rights to citizens than privacy and free speech. Any move by the Government to implement wide-net surveillance would …