Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
Diana Sayed is the Crisis Response and Tactical Campaigner at Amnesty. She gives us an update on the long-standing crisis in Myanmar, where over 620,000 Rohingya people have been forced to flee for their lives to neighbouring Bangladesh. What has happened over last three months? In late August, a Rohingya armed group launched a series of …
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In the early morning of Friday 25 August, a Rohingya armed group — the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) — launched a series of coordinated attacks on several dozen security force posts in the north of Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Since then, Myanmar’s security forces have engaged in an unlawful and disproportionate campaign of violence against …
For the millions of people who have suffered, and continue to suffer as crimes against humanity go unpunished in Syria, today marks the sixth anniversary of the first major protests that sparked the conflict. Six years. Six years of living in fear of death by constant bombardment from air strikes, deliberate attacks on civilians, homes, …
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For those who watched appalled as Donald Trump won the US presidential election basing his election on a platform of fear, xenophobia and hate, there was always the consolation that his poisonous campaign rhetoric might be a mere vote-winning strategy. Just words. Yet the new President has swiftly backed up this hateful discourse with a …
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