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Amnesty International has lodged a submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters Inquiry into the draft Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform) Bill 2017. Read our submission here Amnesty is concerned at the likely negative impacts on the work of various civil society organisations by virtue of the proposed definitions of …
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Civilians in west Mosul have been ruthlessly exploited by the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS), which has systematically moved them into zones of conflict, used them as human shields, and prevented them from escaping to safety. They have also been subjected to relentless unlawful attacks by Iraqi government forces and members of …
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An already dangerous journey for tens of thousands of refugees has become deadlier thanks to President Trump’s Executive Order on border control and immigration as well as entrenched reckless practices in Mexico, Amnesty International said in a new report based on intensive investigations on both sides of the border. Read the report Facing Walls: USA …
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Civilians from minority ethnic groups suffer appalling violations and abuses, including war crimes, at the hands of Myanmar’s military and ethnic armed groups in the country’s Kachin and northern Shan states, Amnesty International’s new report reveals. ‘All the Civilians Suffer’: Conflict, Displacement and Abuse in Northern Myanmar’ details how soldiers from the Tatmadaw, as Myanmar’s …
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1,032 executions worldwide in 2016, down 37% from 2015 (1,634) Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan join China as world’s top five executioners USA not among top five for first time since 2006, with lowest number of executions since 1991 China investigation discredits claims of openness Vietnam state killing spree revealed China’s horrifying use of …
Amnesty International released its 2016 global review of the death penalty today. Excluding China, states around the world executed 1,032 people in 2016. China executed more than all other countries in the world put together, while the USA reached a historic low in its use of the death penalty in 2016. Read the report Key stats The …
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A new briefing, Treasure I$land, exposes how Spanish multinational Ferrovial and its Australian subsidiary Broadspectrum are complicit in, enabling, and reaping vast profits from, Australia’s cruel, secretive and deliberately abusive refugee “processing” system on Nauru. Read the report “The Australian government has created an island of despair for refugees and people seeking asylum on Nauru, …
Blame, hate and fear at centre of global political trends Abuses exposed in Australia, urgent reforms needed As Australia bids for membership of UN Human Rights Council, consistent leadership is needed REPORt: state of the world’s human rights The courage to expose and speak out about human rights abuses has become more important than ever, …
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A chilling new report by Amnesty International exposes the Syrian government’s calculated campaign of extrajudicial executions by mass hangings at Saydnaya Prison. Read the report Between 2011 and 2015, every week and often twice a week, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged to death. In five …
Acting on instructions from the very top of government, the Philippines police have killed and paid others to kill thousands of alleged drug offenders in a wave of extrajudicial executions that may amount to crimes against humanity. Read the report Amnesty International’s investigation,“If you are poor you are killed”: Extrajudicial Executions in the Philippines’ “War …
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