In response to the horrific treatment of children at Don Dale and concerns raised about other youth prisons, Indigenous and human rights advocates are calling for Australia to ratify the Optional Protocol on the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT). Julian Cleary, Indigenous Rights Campaigner from Amnesty International breaks down what OPCAT actually is and why it […]
August 4 is 2016 National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day, a day where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families to celebrate the strengths and culture of their children. We chatted to AFL footballer Jarrad Oakley Nicholls about his important work as a mentor for Indigenous kids. Tell us about yourself I was raised […]
Chilling footage showing detained Indigenous children being tear gassed and a child being hooded and strapped to a restraint chair in Australia’s Northern Territory must serve as a wakeup call for the government on the need to urgently change its policies on juvenile detention. The organization is calling on Australia’s authorities to immediately ratify the […]
The Thai authorities must immediately drop the criminal investigation against three of the country’s most prominent human rights activists, including the chair of Amnesty International Thailand, who could be charged tomorrow for documenting and publishing a report about torture by Thai security forces. Somchai Homla-or, Anchana Heemmina, and Porpen Khongkaconkiet, who was appointed Chair of […]
The abuses carried out against children shown in last night’s Four Corners program are a shocking violation of both the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention against Torture. The Australian Government must immediately launch an investigation into the NT youth detention system, and take action to prevent the abuse of […]
Mining operations by India’s state-owned Coal India Limited, the world’s largest coal producer, are shutting out indigenous Adivasi communities from decisions that affect their lives. The report, “When Land Is Lost, Do We Eat Coal?”: Coal Mining and Violations of Adivasi Rights in India, traces how Coal India subsidiaries, central government ministries and state government […]
Great news from the NT! Our supporters really stepped up to ensure that independent MPs did not support the government’s damaging plans to lock up more kids before they have even been to trial. What happened? The Northern Territory government was seeking to rush through changes on their final parliamentary sitting day before the NT […]
It’s been one year since China began its assault on human rights lawyers and activists across the country on 9 July 2015. In all, 248* lawyers and activists were questioned by police, detained or charged. We look back on the key events as they unfolded, from the height of the crackdown in July last year, […]
We urge the Maldives authorities to immediately halt plans to carry out the execution of Hussain Humaam Ahmed (Humaam) and to commute his, and all other, existing death sentences in Maldives. Early in the morning of 24 June 2016, the Maldives Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against Humaam for the murder of MP Afrasheem […]
The Malaysian authorities’ failure to hold anyone accountable for the death in custody of N. Dharmendran raises serious questions about their commitment to ending serious human rights violations. The statement followed a decision by the Lumpur High Court on Wednesday to acquit four police officers accused of torturing a man, N. Dharmendran, to death in […]
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