Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
Mining companies and their stakeholders, including investors, governments and politicians, must confront the human rights abuses that are rife in the industry, Amnesty International said today, as the world’s biggest mining investment conference begins in Cape Town. Known as Mining Indaba, the conference brings together investors from around the world to discuss mining interests in …
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Cattle farming is the main driver of illegal land seizures on Reserves and Indigenous territories in Brazil’s Amazon, fuelling deforestation and trampling on the rights of Indigenous and traditional people living there, Amnesty International said in a new report today. Fence off and bring cattle: Illegal cattle farming in Brazil’s Amazon was released as Amnesty …
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Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Kumi Naidoo, has written a personal plea to more than 30,000 schools around the world today urging them to allow children to take part in the unprecedented wave of global climate strikes planned for 20 and 27 September. In a letter sent to school-heads and school-boards by Amnesty International’s national offices …
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