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Human rights Australia
Together we’re progressing human rights
19 March 2024 | 2:39 pm

For more than 60 years since we started, we’ve campaigned for justice, freedom, equality and dignity wherever it has been denied. Together we’ve made immense progress in the advancement of human rights, but right now, there are communities around the world enduring attacks on their fundamental human rights. So, we all must continue to advocate […]

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Alyawarr children watch Aboriginal stockmen unload brumbies (wild horses) at the Arlparra stockyards, Northern Territory, Australia, August 2009. Background: In 2007, the Australian Government launched an intervention into Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. To enact the Northern Territory Emergency Response legislation and to implement the intervention, the Australian Government suspended the Racial Discrimination Act and Northern Territory anti-discrimination legislation. More than 45,000 Aboriginal people are now subject to racially discriminatory measures, including the acquisition of Indigenous land and the compulsory and blanket quarantining of social security payments in 73 Northern Territory communities. For many, these measures have stripped them of their dignity and further contributed to a deep sense of exclusion and voicelessness. Amnesty International is calling for laws designed to protect people from discrimination to be immediately reinstated without any loopholes.
Activism Australia
Amnesty’s Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan 2024-2026
18 March 2024 | 1:21 pm

Amnesty is honoured to work closely with the oldest continuing culture in the world. We value the relationships we have with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across Australia. To be an effective human rights organisation, we’ll continue working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in their fight for justice in order to achieve […]

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A group of people standing in a room hold up signs in support of various human rights
Climate justice Australia
An Australian human rights act: Why we need one
13 March 2024 | 5:03 pm

Fundamental human rights in Australia such as the right to assembly, peaceful protest and freedom of speech are under threat. Now more than ever, establishing an Australian Human Rights Act is crucial. Australia is the only liberal democracy in the world without a federal Human Rights Act. Anti-discrimination laws protect people’s right to live free […]

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Community is Everything Australia
NSW Bail Law proposal: Amnesty International Australia urges the NSW Government to prioritise justice reinvestment over punitive measures
13 March 2024 | 4:04 pm

Amnesty International Australia holds serious concerns over the NSW Government’s proposal to tighten youth bail laws, which will disproportionately affect First Nations youth. Amnesty International Australia urges the NSW Government to shift its focus towards establishing and funding justice reinvestment initiatives and diversionary programs which will act as a circuit breaker to keep youth out […]

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Gender and sexuality Middle East
Saudi Arabia: release forcibly disappeared woman Manahel al Otaib

On 16 November 2022, Saudi authorities arrested 29-year-old Manahel al-Otaibi. She has been forcibly disappeared ever since.. Why? She was charged with violating the Anti-Cyber Crime Law due to her tweets in support of women’s rights. Her case has been referred from the Criminal Court in Riyadh to the Specialized Criminal Court, set up to […]

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Women's rights Global
International Women’s Day 2024
7 March 2024 | 10:08 pm

This International Women’s Day, women’s rights are under attack across the world. Feminists are standing up, working within their cultures to change perspectives and fight for basic human rights. Conflict and authoritarianism are on the rise, and they disproportionately impact women and minority groups. They’re the first to have their rights threatened. However, women aren’t […]

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Women's rights Middle East
Iran: Draconian campaign to enforce compulsory veiling laws through surveillance and mass car confiscations
7 March 2024 | 11:27 am

Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting women drivers, said Amnesty International ahead of International Women’s Day. Tens of thousands of women have had their cars arbitrarily confiscated as punishment for defying Iran’s veiling […]

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Activism Asia
Three Tibetan voices: Solidarity with the people of Tibet
7 March 2024 | 9:20 am

For Tibetans worldwide, 10 March is the most important day on their political calendar. On that day in 1959, thousands of Tibetans took to the streets of capital Lhasa to resist China’s invasion of Tibet. The crackdown on the protest led to the loss of many Tibetan lives and forced the Dalai Lama and over […]

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