Mahadine, an online activist in Chad, was released on 5 April after spending more than 18 months in prison on fabricated charges. He had been facing a life sentence for a Facebook post critical of the government. What happened? Mahadine was conditionally released on 5 April 2018 by the High Court of Ndjamena. The initial …
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How we’re keeping up the fight in the year ahead
Thanks for being a part of our campaigns in 2018. We have so much work to do and your support makes us strong. Here’s what’s coming up for the rest of the year… BRAVE “Without the kind of people who create a vibrant civil society, there is a greater inequality. This is something our Amnesty …
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Death sentences and executions in 2017
Protect your data, protect your human rights: Amnesty’s 3-step guide
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in 2018 before the US Senate, after admitting that up to 87 million people may have had their data improperly shared with the company Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica’s ties to the Trump campaign have made data harvesting headline news, but this story is probably just the tip of the iceberg. …
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Taner Kılıç: another day in prison, another day of injustice
5 April 2018 marked a sad anniversary. The Honorary Chair of Amnesty Turkey, Taner Kılıç, has spent the last 300 days wrongfully behind bars. But our fight for his freedom continues. Amnesty activists around the world took to the streets, all conveying the same strong message: No one should be imprisoned for defending human rights. Our …
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Wagga Wagga group take #mynewNeighbour to the public
Wagga Wagga group take #mynewneighbour to the public Long-running regional group Wagga Wagga based in the town of Riverina played centre stage to the launch of #mynewneighbour last week. The group who are committed to the protection of refugees are leading the charge in their community for alternative pathways and a fair go for refugees. The group’s passionate …
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My New Neighbour: How We Won in the ACT
By Johanna Larkin and Jill Moran Johanna is studying Law and Arts at the ANU and convenes the ANU Amnesty International Group Jill Moran is a policy expert and long time activist for women’s rights and human rights issues, based in the ACT Last week, Amnesty International ACT achieved an enormous win for the national …
How ethical is your Easter binge?
We don’t want to be the bearer of bad news, but palm oil, it’s in everything. It’s in cooking oil, cereals, shampoo, soaps and – sweet tooths take note – it’s in chocolate. To create palm oil, palm fruits on trees are harvested and processed into edible oils used for cooking and processed for foods …
Beyond the ‘refugee’ label: welcoming new people to our neighbourhoods
As a journalist in Zimbabwe throughout the 2000s, I reported on the brutal killing sprees and human rights abuses of Robert Mugabe’s henchmen and widespread corruption. It was never going to be a walk in the park. An informed people is a powerful people and that’s why the dictatorship did everything to gag the media. …
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What’s in a name?
Sara Saleh is an Arab-Australian human rights and refugee advocate, grassroots activist and artist. My name is ethnically ‘ambiguous’, but it is actually a Hebrew name with British spelling that rolls off an Australian tongue worn by me, Sara – an Arab, Muslim woman. A name palatable to mainstream, never mispronounced in school roll call …