Amnesty International Australia has written to Australian Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, sharing its grave concern about a homophobic and transphobic law adopted in Hungary. The rights of the LGBTQIA+ community have once again been placed under dire threat in Hungary after the authorities passed a deeply problematic law. This new legislation outlaws education or advertising …
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Iran: Why was Alireza Fazeli Monfared murdered?
Content warning: details of the murder of a non-binary gay man. Earlier this month Alireza Fazeli Monfared, who self-identified as a non-binary gay man, was brutally murdered in his hometown in Iran. His killers are yet to face justice – and under Iran’s justice system, are unlikely to. Alireza was murdered on 4 May in …
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Turkey mustn’t withdraw from the Istanbul Convention: Amnesty International
On 20 March 2021, Turkish authorities issued a Presidential Decree announcing its imminent withdrawal from the 2011 Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, better known as the Istanbul Convention. The Istanbul Convention was drafted by the Council of Europe in 2011, designed to provide legal protection for women and promote …
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Submission: Inquiry into the Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020 (NSW)
Amnesty International Australia has submitted to the New South Wales Legislative Council’s Portfolio Committee No.3 – Education’s inquiry into the Education Legislation Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020. If this bill was to be passed, trans and gender diverse children in New South Wales will be harmed. Trans and gender diverse children and young people exist. …
Indonesian authorities must end cruel and inhuman punishment of LGBTQIA+ community
In the Indonesian province of Aceh, authorities conducted at least 60 public floggings against 254 LGBTQIA+ people in 2020, 52 of which were conducted after the COVID-19 outbreak started. We can’t stand by and allow the LGBTQIA+ community to be targeted like this. On Thursday 28 January 2021, two men were flogged in public for …