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Amnesty International Australia today welcomed the further release of refugees from the Park Hotel, Alternative Place of Detention (APOD), in Melbourne, but said the release showed the policy was arbitrary and cruel. Amnesty redoubled its call for the release of a further 14 people who remain in detention and all those arbitrarily detained. Among those …
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Feedback from member states during the United Nation’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Australia’s human rights track record found it seriously lacking in its commitments to international human rights law. Among the criticisms leveled at Australia by the international community is its treatment of First Nations peoples and the mandatory and indefinite detention of …
People in the United States deserve a bold and transformational approach from their new President, Joe Biden, who is being inaugurated today in Washington DC. “As a global superpower, US government policy affects us all, and we call on the Biden administration to put human rights at the forefront of all their policies,” Amnesty International …
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The Vietnamese authorities must end their relentless assault on human rights defenders and individuals exercising their human rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, said Amnesty International today ahead of the 13th party congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV), scheduled to take place between 25 January and 2 February. “The …
Continue reading “Viet Nam: New leadership must seize opportunity to reverse human rights decline”
Alice Springs Town Council has passed a motion in favour of implementing measures to ‘counteract antisocial and criminal behaviour’, including a possible curfew for young people. Amnesty International has written to all councillors and the Northern Territory Police Minister, Nicole Manison, calling on the curfew to be dropped. A youth curfew potentially breaches human rights …
Continue reading “No youth curfew in Alice Springs: Amnesty International”
During the 44-day conflict between late September and early November 2020, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces’ repeated use of notoriously inaccurate and indiscriminate weapons – including cluster munitions and explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated civilian areas – violated international humanitarian law and killed scores of civilians, injured hundreds and destroyed homes and key infrastructure. …
The family of Australian father of two, Chau Van Kham, are this week marking the two year anniversary of his arrest and incarceration in Viet Nam. The former baker from Sydney, who suffers from a number of medical issues, will also be turning 72 years old. But he won’t be talking to his wife and …
In response to Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack’s defence of his comparison of the Capitol Riots and the Black Lives Matter, in which he stated ‘All Lives Matter’, Amnesty International Indigenous Rights Lead, Nolan Hunter, said: “The Acting Prime Minister is continuing to show his ignorance about what Black Lives Matters mean, and how it …
Amnesty International Australia has asked the Australian government to intervene to stop the three scheduled federal executions in the US. Since resuming federal executions after 17 years last July 2019, the Trump administration has put to death a total of ten men and is pursuing a further three executions in its last weeks in office, …
In response to Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack’s comments on ABC Radio this morning, likening last week’s attack on the US Capitol building to Black Lives Matters protests, Amnesty International Indigenous Rights Lead, Nolan Hunter, said: “The Acting Prime Minister must immediately withdraw his deeply offensive comments that compared the violent attacks on the US …
