It is a national pastime to ponder the question: what are Australian values? I have a similar question for the current government: What does the Australian government value and does that align with its citizens? Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, our government appears to value money over people’s lives, as […]
Anti-FGM campaigner Khadija Gbla was born in Sierra Leone and resettled in Australia with her family as a teenager. Khadija survived female genital mutilation (FGM) at the age of nine. “I was three years old when the war started in Sierra Leone. My family escaped to Gambia where I spent my childhood, and 10 years […]
Newtown Action Group is hosting a stall at the Newtown Saturday Market to raise awareness and engage the local communities on a range of human rights issues. Come and join us!!!
Founded in August last year by Michael Carr and Ellen McNeill, Meaningful Movement is in a unique member of the Amnesty International Australia family. What is Meaningful Movement? The group is dedicated to celebrating the work that our Amnesty networks do in promoting human rights. The newly founded group brings together the creative community and […]
A sustained and escalating crackdown curtailed the vital work of human rights defenders in Turkey and left swathes of society in a state of constant fear, a new report from Amnesty International has revealed. The report, Weathering The Storm: Defending human rights in a climate of fear, reveals how few areas of Turkey’s once vibrant […]
Amnesty International has today called on the Northern Territory Government to fast-track raising the age of criminal responsibility to at least 14, saying that it is an unprecedented opportunity to divert children out of prison into therapeutic prevention and diversion programs. As part of releasing Safe, Thriving and Connected, an implementation plan for the Northern […]
Mahadine, an online activist in Chad, was released on 5 April after spending more than 18 months in prison on fabricated charges. He had been facing a life sentence for a Facebook post critical of the government. What happened? Mahadine was conditionally released on 5 April 2018 by the High Court of Ndjamena. The initial […]
5 April 2018 marked a sad anniversary. The Honorary Chair of Amnesty Turkey, Taner Kılıç, has spent the last 300 days wrongfully behind bars. But our fight for his freedom continues. Amnesty activists around the world took to the streets, all conveying the same strong message: No one should be imprisoned for defending human rights. […]
WOMAD What? For the past number of years, the SA/NT Branch Committee has taken an active role in organising an Amnesty Stall at the WOMADelaide Music Festival. A festival that celebrates diversity, equality, peace and understanding, it is the perfect place to meet other people from around the world to talk about and raise support […]
The Australian government must immediately scrap proposed new laws that, if passed, would suffocate the work of civil society, intimidate whistleblowers and limit scrutiny of government, Amnesty International said. The bills – the Electoral Funding and Disclosure Reform Bill and the National Security Legislation Amendment (Espionage and Foreign Interference) Bill – are currently being reviewed […]
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