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With just one year to go until the 2022 FIFA World Cup, time is running out for Qatar to deliver on its promise to abolish the kafala sponsorship system and better protect migrant workers, Amnesty International said today. In Reality Check 2021, a new analysis of Qatar’s progress towards overhauling its labour system, the organization found that progress has stagnated over …
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As Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi prepares for the keynote address the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Sydney Dialogue today, Amnesty International Australia has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison – who will also address the conference – not to trade away human rights in dealings with India. Recent research from Amnesty Tech revealed that extensive …
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With just one year to go until the 2022 FIFA World Cup, time is running out for Qatar to deliver on its promise to abolish the kafala sponsorship system and better protect migrant workers, Amnesty International said today. In Reality Check 2021, a new analysis of Qatar’s progress towards overhauling its labour system, the organization found that progress …
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Today marks three months since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Since that time the reports of horrendous conditions being endured by those still trapped have been endless. The recent Senate Committee heard that more than 100,000 people have asked for help from Australia. Apart from a wholly inadequate 3,000 places taken from the …
Amnesty International today welcomed a commitment by States and Territories to work on a proposal to raise the age of criminal responsibility, but criticised a lack of leadership by not committing to a minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) of 14. “This is not the compromise they think it is,” Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights …
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Leaders have catastrophically betrayed humanity at large by failing to protect people most affected by the climate crisis and instead caving into the interests of fossil fuel and other powerful corporations, Amnesty International said today as the climate conference, COP26, concludes for another year. Following two weeks of negotiations by world leaders in Glasgow, Amnesty’s …
Responding to a Thai Constitutional Court ruling that the calls for reform by three prominent activists during 2020 protests were attempts to overthrow the monarchy, Emerlynne Gil, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research, said: “While this ruling carries no sentence or fine, the sweeping implications represent a dangerous warning to hundreds of thousands of …
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Women raped at gunpoint, robbed and assaulted Lack of medical care after TPLF fighters damaged and looted hospital Abuses committed as Tigray conflict has spilled over into Amhara region Sixteen women from the town of Nifas Mewcha in Ethiopia’s Amhara region told Amnesty International they were raped by fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) during the group’s …
Despite the lifting of Egypt’s state of emergency, at least 36 men remain at risk of execution following convictions by grossly unfair emergency courts.
On the morning of 7 November, two unidentified men on a motorcycle threw three explosive packages into the garage of the house of Veronica Koman, a human rights lawyer working in Australia’s parents in Jakarta.
