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Colombia: Excessive force by riot police left more than 100 people with eye trauma
Violence and repression by the Colombian security forces, especially the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD), have resulted in hundreds of victims sustaining eye trauma, said Amnesty International, Temblores and the Programa de Acción por la Igualdad y la Inclusión Social (PAIIS) of the Universidad de los Andes in a new report published today. Colombia: Shoot on …
“They are the revolution”: Stories of Afghan women fighting for their future under Taliban rule
16 remarkable Afghan Women Human Rights Defenders share their stories of fighting for their future under Taliban rule.
The policing of the 2021 NSW lockdown
During the 2021 NSW lockdown, dozens of people reported concerning interactions with police to Amnesty International Australia, including being incorrectly issued fines and being stopped and searched under the pretext of the COVID-19 restrictions.
Report: Amnesty International Australia Human Rights Barometer 2021
Australians’ current attitudes to their rights and the rights of others.
Report: China’s Mass Internment, Torture and Persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang
Amnesty International’s latest report Like We Were Enemies In A War is a comprehensive human rights investigation into the crushing repression faced by Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Based on scores of interviews – 55 of them with former detainees – the investigation since October 2019 found evidence …
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Report: Stop Burning Our Rights! What governments and corporations must do to protect humanity from the climate crisis
A blueprint for what governments and corporations must do to address the climate crisis.
Amnesty International Global Death Penalty Report: Death Sentences and Executions 2020
In 2020, we recorded the lowest number of executions in over a decade. The world is getting closer to abolishing death penalty. 2021 cannot be a year of regression.
NSW police using COVID-19 pandemic to restrict the right to protest
Over the past twelve months, Amnesty International has highlighted how police around the world have used the COVID-19 pandemic as a cover to crack down on the right to protest. Today, Amnesty International has released a briefing detailing how New South Wales police have used disproportionate and unnecessary force to police protests and enforce COVID-19 …
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Amnesty International Report 2020/21: The state of the world’s human rights
The human rights situation in 149 countries in 2020.