Celebrated global music artist and activist Alicia Keys and the inspirational movement of Indigenous Peoples fighting for their rights in Canada have been honoured with Amnesty International’s Ambassador of Conscience Award for 2017. The award will be officially presented at a ceremony in Montréal, Canada, on 27 May. Accepting the award recognising the Indigenous rights …
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#FreeNazanin: A letter to my sweet daughter
Last year, 37-year-old charity worker Nazanin and her two-year-old daughter Gabriella were holidaying in Iran to visit her parents. While on their way home, Nazanin was arrested at the airport check-in desk. Her daughter had her British passport confiscated, and is now stranded in Iran with her grandparents. On Change.org, Nazanin’s husband shared a touching letter that Nazanin wrote …
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The current state of the death penalty around the world
Amnesty International released its 2016 global review of the death penalty today. Here is a snapshot of executions around the world in the last year. Global figures At least 1,032 people were executed in 23 countries in 2016. In 2015 Amnesty International recorded 1,634 executions in 25 countries worldwide – a historical spike unmatched since 1989 …
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Death Penalty: China must come clean about ‘grotesque’ level of capital punishment
1,032 executions worldwide in 2016, down 37% from 2015 (1,634) Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan join China as world’s top five executioners USA not among top five for first time since 2006, with lowest number of executions since 1991 China investigation discredits claims of openness Vietnam state killing spree revealed China’s horrifying use of …
Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2016
Amnesty International released its 2016 global review of the death penalty today. Excluding China, states around the world executed 1,032 people in 2016. China executed more than all other countries in the world put together, while the USA reached a historic low in its use of the death penalty in 2016. Read the report Key stats The …
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Think there are no better alternatives for kids than prison? Here are seven
The Australian prison system is currently so broken that child abuse in detention centres is happening right under our government’s watch. There are children being tear gassed and locked in solitary confinement, and it’s not just at Don Dale. When the entire prison system seems designed to punish children rather than help them, it’s little wonder …
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Judith Neilson joins Amnesty International’s Global Council
The prominent philanthropist is the first Australian to join Amnesty’s council of leaders from the arts, business and philanthropic world. Amnesty International is pleased to announce that philanthropist and arts patron Judith Neilson, AM will join the organisation’s prestigious Global Council. Judith Neilson, founder of the White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney, Australia, will be the …
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Syria: UN Security Council must take decisive action after Idleb chemical attack
Evidence gathered is suggesting a nerve agent was used in an air-launched chemical attack which killed more than 70 and injured hundreds of civilians in Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s northern province of Idleb, Amnesty International revealed as the UN Security Council met for an emergency meeting in New York. We are urging the Security Council …
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Report: Treasure I$land: Corporate giant Ferrovial making millions from Australia’s torture of refugees on Nauru
A new briefing, Treasure I$land, exposes how Spanish multinational Ferrovial and its Australian subsidiary Broadspectrum are complicit in, enabling, and reaping vast profits from, Australia’s cruel, secretive and deliberately abusive refugee “processing” system on Nauru. Read the report “The Australian government has created an island of despair for refugees and people seeking asylum on Nauru, …
Spanish corporate giant Ferrovial makes millions from Australia’s torture of refugees on Nauru
A major corporation responsible for running the Australian government’s refugee “processing” centre on Nauru is making millions of dollars from a system that amounts to torture of refugees and people seeking asylum. A new briefing, Treasure I$land, exposes how Spanish multinational Ferrovial and its Australian subsidiary Broadspectrum are complicit in, enabling, and reaping vast profits …