In 2016, #IndigenousDads and their children took to Twitter to combat racism against Indigenous fathers, and to share fond memories of their childhood. This Mother’s Day, Amnesty is handing the spotlight over to the much-deserving, hardworking #IndigenousMums. We chat to 10 inspiring Indigenous women – who are achieving amazing things in their communities while simultaneously …
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“I will never forget the day they told us we couldn’t go to the US”
For weeks, Suzanne Khoja had Monday January 30 etched on her mind. She had been thinking of little else since finding out it would be the date she and her family would finally land in the US after a gruelling three-year asylum application process. That process had started after the family had fled the ongoing …
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Turkey’s journalists are under siege – You can help them like you helped us
By Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy In prison, one of the greatest challenges is psychological. Even though conditions can be pretty terrible, as long as you have basic nutrition, clean water and shelter you can physically survive. But it is the sense of hopelessness and isolation that can be mentally crippling, and even fatal. So when …
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“Help bring my husband back” – One woman’s campaign to free her husband in Iran
By Vida Mehrannia Iranian-born Swedish resident Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor and lecturer in disaster medicine, has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison since his arrest on 25 April 2016. While in solitary confinement, he was subjected to intense interrogations, and forced under great emotional and psychological pressure to sign statements. He has been …
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‘Art should create questions’: Hesam Fetrati
Iran-born visual artist Hesam Fetrati dreams of a ‘Shared Australia’. An Australia that welcomes refugees and asylum seekers rather than locking them up in detention and abolishes phrases like ‘illegal immigrant’ from its vernacular. Amnesty International Australia grabbed 10 minutes to chat with Hesam about the power of art in creating social change. In his …
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Is modern-day activism lazy or just smarter?
As someone who wouldn’t have called herself an activist before last year, Kate Taylor never imagined she would be rallying 10,000 protesters to march for women’s rights on Donald Trump’s inauguration day in January. The law student first heard about the Women’s March on Washington through a friend who was working in the US. Inspired …
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‘The big companies cashing in on cruelty of the vulnerable’: Dr Sid French
Dr Sid French is a structural engineer with long experience in the international infrastructure industry. He is also a member of Amnesty International Australia’s 20/20 Council and believes in the humane treatment of refugees. Franco Belgiorno-Nettis personified the Australia of the fair go. Having immigrated to Australia to escape poverty in early 1950s Italy, he …
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#FreeNazanin: A letter to my sweet daughter
Last year, 37-year-old charity worker Nazanin and her two-year-old daughter Gabriella were holidaying in Iran to visit her parents. While on their way home, Nazanin was arrested at the airport check-in desk. Her daughter had her British passport confiscated, and is now stranded in Iran with her grandparents. On Change.org, Nazanin’s husband shared a touching letter that Nazanin wrote …
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The current state of the death penalty around the world
Amnesty International released its 2016 global review of the death penalty today. Here is a snapshot of executions around the world in the last year. Global figures At least 1,032 people were executed in 23 countries in 2016. In 2015 Amnesty International recorded 1,634 executions in 25 countries worldwide – a historical spike unmatched since 1989 …
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Think there are no better alternatives for kids than prison? Here are seven
The Australian prison system is currently so broken that child abuse in detention centres is happening right under our government’s watch. There are children being tear gassed and locked in solitary confinement, and it’s not just at Don Dale. When the entire prison system seems designed to punish children rather than help them, it’s little wonder …
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