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The outcome of President Obama’s Leaders’ Summit on Refugees in New York marks a small step forward but falls far short of what is needed to address the global refugee crisis. Leaders at the summit increased commitments on resettlement, humanitarian funding, refugee education and access to work. The pledges – which pale in comparison to …
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Commitments made by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the Obama Summit in New York last night are far from enough when it comes to stepping up and helping the world’s most vulnerable people. Responding to Prime Minister Turnbull’s announcement last night that Australia’s humanitarian intake will remain at 18,750, Ming Yu Hah, Refugee Campaigner at …
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Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez has been detained a second time, after a court ordered his release from administrative detention on Tuesday. “Detaining a person right after he is released, without any intention to charge him or bring him to trial, amounts to using a revolving door of persecution,” said Aakar Patel, Executive Director, …
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Last night’s attack on a UN/Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy, intended for 78,000 people in Aleppo, is a flagrant violation of the most fundamental principles of international humanitarian law. Witnesses in Syria have told the organization that the convoy, along with the Syrian Arab Red Crescent warehouse where it had docked, were bombed intensively …
Ahead of the Leaders Summit, hosted by US President Barack Obama in New York tomorrow, Amnesty International is urging other countries to reject the model of abuse that Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is championing and instead call on Australia to do its fair share. “Instead of doing its fair share for the world’s most …
Kashmiri human rights defender Khurram Parvez must be immediately released from administrative detention unless he is charged with recognizable criminal offences. The 39-year-old, who is the coordinator of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society Organisation (JKCCS), a prominent human rights organization, was arrested from his Srinagar residence and detained by the state police on …
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Prime Minister Turnbull must step up and offer solutions as he heads to New York. To download available video material and satellite imagery click here. Video footage and satellite images showing makeshift grave sites and burial mounds offer a rare glimpse inside a desert no man’s land between Jordan and Syria where tens of thousands …
The government crackdown is intensifying one month after the attempted uprising. Fear comes in many forms. A month ago, on the night of the bloody coup attempt here in Turkey, I together with millions in Istanbul and Ankara experienced gut-tightening fear as explosions shook our living rooms and gunfire crackled outside our windows. Downstairs my …
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US President Barack Obama should place himself on the right side of history by pardoning whistleblower Edward Snowden, who faces the possibility of decades in prison for speaking out to defend human rights. Ahead of an upcoming Oliver Stone film about Snowden’s whistleblowing and exile in Russia in 2013, the campaign is calling for a …
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The Indonesian central government should allow dozens of Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, including a pregnant woman and nine children, who have reached the coast of Lhoknga, Aceh, to disembark and meet UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) officials. Pushback fears “These people have endured a long and difficult journey already. Now that they have reached land …
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