Campaign updates Archives

Human rights WIP: Refugee families resettled, Prisoner of conscience Ahmed is free, #BLM facial recognition lawsuit win, and more

Small actions from compassionate people have big impacts. Here are a handful from the past few months.

Campaign update: Australia’s Community Sponsorship Program for refugees

Any Community Sponsorship Program must be in addition to Australia’s annual humanitarian intake.

The overrepresentation problem: First Nations kids are 26 times more likely to be incarcerated than their classmates

Why are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people the most incarcerated people in the world?

Report: The Power of ‘the Street’, protecting the right to peaceful protest in Poland

Follow-up report highlights the state’s response to peaceful protest in Poland, especially towards LGBTQI+ activism.

Kids need more than platitudes: close Ashley, Don Dale and raise the age

Amnesty calls to close detention centres and raise the age of criminal responsibility during National Child Protection Week.

Report: Amnesty International Australia Human Rights Barometer 2022

We look at 4 key human rights Australians care about: First Nations peoples’ rights, racism, Covid-19 impact and refugee rights.

Raising the age: why it needs to be more than detention

Tasmania has recently been in the news for raising the age – not of criminal responsibility, but of detention. Amnesty welcomes this significant step in a smarter approach to justice. Putting children in prisons causes irreparable harm, governments know this, but continue to allow children to be subject to this treatment. The Tasmanian government recognising …

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