Kids have healthy, happy childhoods when they live in loving and nurturing communities. It’s kids’ connections with family and community that allows them to flourish, and sets them up for a good life. But government policies are separating Indigenous kids from their communities. By locking up kids as young as 10, we are repeating our …
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Report: A brighter tomorrow
Kids have healthy, happy childhoods when they live in loving and nurturing communities. It’s Kids’ connections with family and community that allows them to flourish, and sets them up for a good life. But government policies are separating Indigenous kids from their communities. By locking up kids as young as 10, we are repeating our …
Human rights organisations call for an overhaul to government campaigning to end death penalty
A group of leading Australian and international human rights organisations are calling for an overhaul to the way the Australian government campaigns to end the death penalty, today launching a new strategy document: ‘Australian Government and the Death Penalty: A Way Forward’. NGOs united to develop blueprint Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Human Rights …
The ultimate punishment: A beginner’s guide to the death penalty
Amnesty International’s new report Death Sentences and Executions 2014 reveals that an alarming number of countries used the death penalty to tackle real or perceived threats to state security linked to terrorism, crime or internal instability last year. Here we give a snapshot of the death penalty around the world today. How widespread is the …
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Torture in 2014: 30 Years of Broken Promises
In 2014 Amnesty International launched its Global Stop Torture campaign to stop governments around the world from torturing people. Torture is abhorrent. It is barbaric and inhumane. It can never be justified. It is wrong, self defeating and poisons the rile of law, replacing it with terror. No one is safe when governments allow its …
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Who supplies the world’s weapons?
Did you know just six countries supply a whopping 74 percent of the world’s weapons? Last year, when protestor throughout the Arab world demanded change, military forces in Egypt, Syria, Bahrain and beyond responded with deadly force, staining the streets with the blood of more than 8,000 people. This could happen ebcuase countries including US, …
No arms for atrocities or abuses
Each year, the global trade in conventional arms carries an enormous human cost. In July 2012, UN member states will be invited to the UN conference to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty. Now is the time to ensure that the Treaty contains the highest possible common standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional …
The Land Holds Us: Aboriginal Peoples’ right to traditional homelands
For over three years we partnered with the Alyawarr and Anmatyerr communities of Utopia homelands to develop our report which highlights how specific policies on homelands in the Northern Territory undermine the rights of Aboriginal communities. For Aboriginal People the connection to their traditional lands is of central importance to their identity and culture. Research also …
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Setting the Standard: A National plan of action to stop violence against women
Violence against women is widespread, systematic and culturally entrenched. In Australia, one in three women who have been in relationships has experienced violence. The responses to this violence only compound the problems: women fleeing violence are turned away from shelters for lack of space; prosecution rates for sexual assault are among the lowest for all …
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