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  • Displaced at risk as camps close

    Amnesty International said that those displaced by May's xenophobic violence in South Africa face serious threats to their safety, as the last remaining camps for the displaced are closed and their asylum-claims are overwhelmingly rejected.

  • Asylum seekers need equal treatment

    Fourteen people intercepted by the Australian Navy on 29 September have been taken to the Christmas Island detention centre. This highlights the disparity between people processed on the mainland and those taken to offshore detention centres.

  • Killings of border crossers must stop

    Amnesty International has written to Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak this week urging him to end the use of lethal force against African migrants attempting to cross Egypt's border into Israel.

  • Immigration detention reforms a welcome step

    Australia's immigration detention system has finally been brought into line with other Western democracies, following reforms announced today that will see asylum seekers detained as a last resort and for the shortest practicable time. The Government must now amend the Migration Act to ensure these principles are protected by legislation says Amnesty International.

  • Stop flights to possible torture in Eritrea

    Amnesty International wrote to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on 20 June 2008 calling on him to urgently intervene to stop any further forcible returns of Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt back to Eritrea and to ensure that Egypt honours its commitment to allow a meaningful access to the asylum-seekers by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Egypt.

  • World Refugee Day

    As people around the country celebrate the contribution of refugees and asylum-seekers to Australian society this World Refugee Day, Amnesty International Australia is calling on the Australian Government to end mandatory detention.

  • World governments failing Iraqi refugees

    The international community is evading its responsibility towards refugees from Iraq by promoting a false picture of the security situation in Iraq when the country is neither safe nor suitable for return.

  • Ukraine: No safe haven for refugees

    Amnesty International calls on the government of Ukraine to ensure that Lema Susarov is immediately released so that he can be resettled in Finland.

  • Amnesty International Report 2008

    Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to re-commit themselves to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • 60 years of Human Rights failures

    Amnesty International's Report 2008 was launched on Wednesday 28 May. The report looks back on key events in 2007 and ahead to major human rights challenges for 2008, which is the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • Amnesty International Budget analysis

    In delivering its first budget, the Rudd Government has signaled some improvement for human rights but there is still more to do.

  • New Thai government must stand up for human rights of refugees

    Over-crowding, lack of clean water, and constant fear of being sent back to Laos where they face human rights violations: life for 154 Lao Hmong refugees, in detention in northern Thailand since 2006, is intolerable. Amnesty International calls on the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to ensure that the group are immediately released from detention, and are issued with exit visas in order to allow them to be resettled in a third country.

  • No place for an asylum-seeker in Greece

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    Greece must urgently improve the current situation for refugees and asylum-seekers in the country. We call on the Greek authorities to comply with their obligations under international human rights, refugee and European law.

  • Migrant shot dead trying to cross Egypt/Israel border

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    Egyptian security forces shot dead a Sudanese man trying to cross into Israel on Tuesday. A total of five African migrants have now been killed crossing the border so far this year.

  • Inhuman treatment to end for Sri Lankan refugees

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    The announcement that 75 Sri Lankan men - who have been held at the remote offshore detention centre on Nauru since February - have been accepted as genuine refugees and will be resettled in Australia is great news.

  • The Pacific Solution - welcome first steps

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    We welcome the important first steps the Australian Federal Government has taken in dismantling the Pacific Solution. We are now calling for a full commitment to swiftly end the policy of processing asylum seekers off shore.

  • Stop the human rights meltdown: make human rights real

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    A message from Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, on the occasion of International Human Rights Day 2007.

  • New Government has an opportunity to make human rights gains

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    The newly elected Australian Federal Government has a responsibility to ensure the principles set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are upheld.

  • Human rights in the ASEAN Charter and beyond

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    Amnesty International welcomes the inclusion of a commitment within the Charter of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at its 13th Summit to establish a regional human rights body, but urges more transparency.

  • Rescued Indonesians off Australia must not be detained

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    The welfare of 16 Indonesians found off the West Australian coast on Wednesday is of concern. We are worried the group, which includes 10 children, could be held in detention. This is a contradiction to the Australian Government's 2005/2006 commitments to not detain children.

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