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Refugee rights
Townsville Palm Sunday Walk for Peace and Justice for refugees

The 2024 Palm Sunday Walk for Peace and Justice for Refugees will take place on Sunday 24 March. We will meet at the Gregory Street Amphitheatre at 4pm then walk along the Strand footpath to Strand Park before returning to the Amphitheatre where there will be several short speeches from Walk participants and organisers. The […]

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Refugee rights
Palm Sunday – Big Walk for Refugees Bendigo

Bendigo Amnesty members will meet near the Rowing Club at Noon with Amnesty signage and walk around Lake Weeroona to add their kilometres to the BIG WALK for Refugees. We’re walking to show support for 10,000 people seeking asylum who are still waiting to call Australia home after more than 10 years. So add your […]

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Refugee rights Asia
Pakistan: Halt mass detentions and deportations of Afghan refugees
17 November 2023 | 6:03 pm

The Government of Pakistan must immediately halt the continued detentions, deportations and widespread harassment of Afghan refugees, said Amnesty International today. “Thousands of Afghan refugees are being used as political pawns to be returned to Taliban-ruled Afghanistan where their life and physical integrity could be at risk amidst an intensified crackdown on human rights and […]

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An activist at the 2022 Palm Sunday Walk for Justice for Refugees in Naarm holding a sign saying
Refugee rights Australia
Australia’s double standards on human rights is keeping refugees and people seeking asylum on the brink of despair in Nauru and PNG
6 March 2023 | 2:54 pm

Amnesty International Australia urges the Labor government to end the years of abuse and ensure people’s human rights are realised, as a private members Bill is considered in the Senate this week calling for the transfer to Australia of all refugees and people seeking asylum who remain stuck in Nauru and Papua New Guinea for […]

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A man stands in a protesting crowd for refugee rights, holding a sign that says 'Permanent Protection'
Refugee rights Australia
Longstanding injustice ends for 19,000 refugees after 10 years of limbo
13 February 2023 | 6:10 am

Amnesty International Australia welcomes the Australian Government’s announcement today that it will fulfil its election promise to end the cruel and unnecessary system of temporary protection visas that has forced thousands of people and their families to live in limbo, unable to move on with their lives. The announcement will end Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs) […]

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