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Amnesty International Australia and Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman urge the Australian government to raise the human rights situation in West Papua during bilateral talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo this week. Fifty-six indigenous West Papuans and one Jakarta-based Indonesian are currently held behind bars for treason in seven cities across Indonesia. They are …
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Peru is betraying its tradition of solidarity with Venezuelans seeking protection and is now deliberately rejecting people at the border, Amnesty International revealed today in a new report, “In search of safety: Peru turns its back on people fleeing Venezuela.” Venezuelan asylum-seekers trying to enter via Peru’s border with Ecuador are being turned away, despite …
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Mining companies and their stakeholders, including investors, governments and politicians, must confront the human rights abuses that are rife in the industry, Amnesty International said today, as the world’s biggest mining investment conference begins in Cape Town. Known as Mining Indaba, the conference brings together investors from around the world to discuss mining interests in …
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The publication of Amnesty International’s annual flagship report should be a wake-up call to Australians for the country’s record on Indigenous rights, asylum seekers as well as threats to freedom of the press and the right to protest. ‘Human Rights in Asia-Pacific: A review of 2019’, which includes a detailed analysis of human rights developments …
The Trump administration’s dismal package of proposals to violate international law and further strip Palestinians of their rights is a handbook for more suffering and abuses in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Amnesty International said today. The organisation urged the international community to reject measures contravening international law that are set out in …
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The Bangladesh government has announced it will offer schooling and skills training opportunities to Rohingya refugee children, two and a half years after they were forced to flee crimes against humanity in Myanmar. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have been campaigning for the nearly half a million Rohingya children in Bangladesh’s refugee camps …
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In response to today’s ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Myanmar to take “provisional measures” to prevent genocidal acts against the Rohingya community, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s South Asia Regional Director, said: “Today’s decision sends a message to Myanmar’s senior officials: the world will not tolerate their atrocities, and will not blindly …
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We encourage all Australians to use January 26 as a day to reflect on the effects of colonisation on Indigenous peoples. Effects are still being experienced to this very day in terms of institutional racism, poverty, health and gross over-representation in Australia’s prisons, removal of children and deaths in custody. We encourage our supporters to …
Amnesty International is concerned by multiple reports of harassment, intimidation and attacks on human rights organisations, media outlets, and journalists in Sri Lanka. Amnesty International has received reports that the authorities carried out more than a dozen unscheduled visits to human rights and media organisations between May 2019 and January 2020 that were seen as …
Scores arrested after protests at shooting down of Ukrainian passenger plane Injured being turned away from hospitals where doctors fear patients risk arrest ‘The situation in Iran right now is even more painful than death. They are killing us slowly; they are torturing us to death’ – an eyewitness to protests in Tehran Verified video …
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