Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
Abdullah Ibhais, the former communications director for Qatar’s 2022 World Cup organizers the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, is today entering his fifth day of hunger strike after being arrested and arbitrarily detained on 15 November. Abdullah, a Jordanian national, is currently appealing a five-year prison sentence which, according to Human Rights Watch, was …
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Global efforts to develop, manufacture and distribute vaccines for COVID-19 need to be conducted in ways that respect human rights.
On the morning of 7 November, two unidentified men on a motorcycle threw three explosive packages into the garage of the house of Veronica Koman, a human rights lawyer working in Australia’s parents in Jakarta.
Amnesty International Australia has made a submission to the inquiry into Australia’s engagement in Afghanistan. The Submission’s focus was on human rights abuses related to Australia’s participation in the war in Afghanistan, and human rights abuses following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.
Amnesty International has written to Australia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne, calling on the Australian Government to support an international treaty process that would see the prohibition of Autonomous Weapons Systems (AWS).
G20 leaders meeting in Rome must put aside greed and selfishness and ensure the fair global distribution of Covid-19 vaccines, said Amnesty International ahead of this year’s G20 Summit in Rome, Italy, which takes place from 30-31 October.
The global climate crisis has intensified a devastating drought in southern Madagascar, and Amnesty is calling on the international community to ramp up relief efforts.
Amnesty International will close its two offices in Hong Kong by the end of the year, the organization announced today.
The Sudanese military leaders must immediately and unconditionally release Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and all others who were arbitrarily detained this morning, Amnesty International said.
Ahead of the US appeal hearing on the extradition of Julian Assange, Amnesty International has written to both Prime Scott Morrison and Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne, urging the Australian Government to engage in a dialogue with the US, and demand that all charges against him be dropped.
