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Defending Human Rights
Each year the Amnesty International Australia Media Awards acknowledge those Australian media stories that have presented a fair and balanced report of a human rights issue, highlighted hidden abuses and encouraged an audience’s greater understanding of a human rights issue. With just over a week left before entries close for this year’s 2021 awards, we’re …
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In August 2020, mass protests erupted across Belarus following a heavily contested election results.
Campaigning for people who have been wrongfully imprisoned is at the heart of what Amnesty International does. We investigate reports of human rights abuses from all over the world, raise awareness of those abuses in the media, and talk to politicians and people with the power to make a difference. Our compassionate activists and supporters …
Rights belong to every one of us – but they are abused and denied every single day. From across the globe into our own backyard, our human rights are under threat. This can feel really overwhelming, and at times, hopeless. But when this happens, we search out the facts. We expose what’s happening on the …
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By Emma Slee, Amnesty International Australia Intern Childcare is back in the news. While in the process of introducing a $1.7 billion childcare package announced in the latest Federal budget, the Australian government remains mired in debate around the place of childcare in modern families. On 22 June, the Coalition party room meeting descended into …
Amnesty International’s latest report Like We Were Enemies In A War is a comprehensive human rights investigation into the crushing repression faced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Based on scores of interviews – 55 of them with former detainees – the investigation since October 2019 found evidence …
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A blueprint for what governments and corporations must do to address the climate crisis.
In August of 2020, mass protests erupted across Belarus following a heavily contested election result. Since then, the governing powers of Belarus have committed shocking violations of human rights in their violent repression of these protests. So what exactly is happening in Belarus and why are human rights activists so concerned? Why are Belarusians protesting? The …
George Floyd’s death highlighted the similarly tragic treatment of our First Peoples in the judicial system.
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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