CONTENT WARNNG: Contains discussion of suicide and mental health During the height of the marriage equality debate, a close friend of mine took his life. The grief, the shock, the guilt, the pain, the heartbreak was something I had never felt before. He was my girlfriend’s best friend, and she was broken. The next few …
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Submission: Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 and related bills
Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to provide this submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights inquiry and the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee inquiry into the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 and Related Bills (the Bill).
Religious Discrimination Bill: Flipping Anti-Discrimination Law on its head
The Bill privileges religious belief over other human rights. The rights of one group cannot come at the expense of the rights of others.
‘Too many lives have been lost, and too many rights continue to be ignored and violated’: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2021
We continue to remember the lives lost to this violence and prejudice.
“Being Asexual”
How do you define an absence of something, when you don’t know what that something is like in the first place?
“Being Bisexual”
Hannah Wahlsten’s personal experience of what it means to be bisexual in celebration of Bisexual Awareness Week.
LGBTQIA+ Australians have been left out of the 2021 Census
Amnesty International has written to Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar MP to convey our dismay over the Australian Government’s decision to not included questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in Census 2021.
Understanding and supporting your non-binary friends
We must first understand what gender binary is and how it affects our view of gender.
Two men flogged 77 times each in cruel anti-LGBTI punishment
Two men in Banda Aceh were flogged 77 times each on Thursday 28 January for allegedly partaking in consensual same-sex relations, said Amnesty International Indonesia today. Aceh’s brutal public canings, often in front of large crowds, have continued unabated during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Flogging constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and can amount to torture. …
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5 Australian human rights cases to take action for this January
In 2020, our global movement continued to stand up for justice, freedom and equality. We took action for the human rights of all, despite the difficult circumstances of a global pandemic. In Australia, we experienced some of the strictest lockdowns in the world. Standing up for what’s right and demanding human rights for all looked …
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