The Vietnamese authorities must end their relentless assault on human rights defenders and individuals exercising their human rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly, said Amnesty International today ahead of the 13th party congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (CPV), scheduled to take place between 25 January and 2 February. “The […]
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Always Was and Always Will be Aboriginal Land & We Will Always Survive As Aboriginal People & We Will Always March on this Day ! It’s is a Day to be Reminded of our warriors who fought for us, the many who were murdered & slaughtered for our land and the battles we still have […]
We made it! 2021 here we are with our first event We thought we’d start this year off with the love theme! But we wanted to do covers(reading someone else’s work) as well. So come along and spit your favourite tear-jerking, heart stopping, soul quenching, love poem! We are excited to feature a long time […]
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Alice Springs Town Council has passed a motion in favour of implementing measures to ‘counteract antisocial and criminal behaviour’, including a possible curfew for young people. Amnesty International has written to all councillors and the Northern Territory Police Minister, Nicole Manison, calling on the curfew to be dropped. A youth curfew potentially breaches human rights […]
Chau Van Kham, a 72 year old Vietnamese Australian and retired baker, was detained within hours of arriving in Vietnam in 2019 and sentenced to 12 years in prison for being a member of the political party, Viet Tan. Amnesty considers him a prisoner of conscience. Vietnamese New Year, known as Tết, is on 12 […]
At the beginning of his presidency, President Trump signed an Executive Order to keep the military prison at Guantánamo Bay open. Since then, no new detainees have come in, and only one has been transferred out. President-Elect Biden has an opportunity to roll back this harmful policy and close the detention center once and for all. […]
After the 2020 Australian Capital Territory election, Shane Rattenbury MLA was appointed Attorney-General. Prior to this, Rattenbury had led the push for the government to commit to raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility. The Amnesty International Australia Community is Everything (CIE) team met with Attorney-General Rattenbury to discuss the progress of raising the age. […]
During the 44-day conflict between late September and early November 2020, Armenian and Azerbaijani forces’ repeated use of notoriously inaccurate and indiscriminate weapons – including cluster munitions and explosive weapons with wide area effects in populated civilian areas – violated international humanitarian law and killed scores of civilians, injured hundreds and destroyed homes and key infrastructure. […]