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Amnesty International Australia is outraged at Labor’s passage of draconian bills, which deliver a devastating setback to the rights of refugees and people seeking asylum. These laws blatantly violate Australia’s international obligations under the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, undermining principles such as non-refoulement and the protection of asylum seekers from punishment. The Albanese Government has […]

Reacting to the violent dispersal of what started as peaceful protest in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Deputy Director, said: “The Georgian authorities have launched yet another punitive operation against peaceful protesters. The use of water cannons, tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets aimed at protesters’ faces […]

Reacting to FIFA’s evaluation of Saudi Arabia’s bid for the 2034 men’s World Cup, Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s Head of Labour Rights and Sport said: “As expected, FIFA’s evaluation of Saudi Arabia’s World Cup bid is an astonishing whitewash of the country’s atrocious human rights record. There are no meaningful commitments that will prevent workers […]

For the past four decades, a woefully inadequate and callous response towards the victims and survivors of the Bhopal gas tragedy have been enabled by environmental racism, Amnesty International said today on the 40th anniversary of one of the world’s worst industrial disasters. Forty years ago, a deadly gas leak from a pesticide plant in […]

Update Across Australia, young people under 16 will be banned from social media after the Government passed the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 on November 28, 2024. The ban will take effect in 12 months’ time, allowing social media companies time to comply with the new laws. Under these laws, social […]

Saudi Arabia’s authorities must immediately and unconditionally release people who have been detained and convicted solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression online as the country prepares to host the annual United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Amnesty International said today. The forum, which runs from 15 to 19 December, includes a focus […]

Healthcare workers across Australia will stand together to demand an immediate and indefinite ceasefire in Gaza, as the humanitarian and healthcare crisis reaches catastrophic levels. The coalition of healthcare workers have organised events across the country to sound the alarm on the targeting of their colleagues in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and call on the […]

Responding to Russia’s latest large-scale missile and drone assault on Ukraine, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “This morning, Russia unleashed one of its most extensive missile attacks on Ukraine in months, alongside numerous drones, making already insufferable conditions even more unbearable. The devastation caused by this and previous […]

The crisis in Gaza and the Occupied Palestinian Territory has now surpassed 400 days, where civilians, healthcare workers, humanitarians and journalists are being attacked or paying the ultimate price – with their lives. In January 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that there is a grave risk of genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, […]

Edition 6 | November 2024 Dear fellow activists, We, the creators of this edition would like to acknowledge the traditional protectors and custodians of the land on which we write, Amnesty International Australia operates, and you reside. We pay our respect to elder’s past, present, and emerging, recognising their ongoing preservation of the Dreaming through […]