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Amnesty International activists taking part in Gay Pride in Paris, June 2015.
LGBTQIA+ rights Australia
Explainer: What are conversion practices? And why Australia needs stronger laws to combat them
11 February 2025 | 10:39 am

Content warning: this article contains discussion of homophobia, transphobia, conversion practices, physical and sexual assault. What are conversion practices? Conversion practices – also known as Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts (SOGICE) – are formal therapeutic and informal practices that target LGBTQA+ people with the false ideology that their sexual orientation, gender identity or […]

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Human Rights Act Australia
Why Australia needs a federal Human Rights Act
20 January 2025 | 2:53 pm

Human rights are the fundamental freedoms and protections that belong to all of us. But did you know that Australia is the only liberal democracy in the world without a Human Rights Act? Our current patchwork laws are failing to protect our fundamental rights, and without a Human Rights Act, there’s almost nothing most Australians […]

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Responsive campaigning Middle East
Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
5 December 2024 | 12:26 pm

Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the organization said in a landmark new report published today. The report, ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza, documents how, during its military […]

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Photo of a children's hand on a fence
Community is Everything Australia
Your guide to the Queensland election
29 October 2024 | 9:33 am

Update The results are in. In the wake of the election, help us tell the newly elected Queensland Government that kids don’t belong in jail cells. Together we won’t stop fighting for the rights of kids and the justice of First Nations communities. The Liberal National Party’s ‘adult crime adult time’ policy is set to […]

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Refugee rights Asia
Malaysia: Urgent Action Needed to Address EAIC’s Findings of Abuse in Bidor Immigration Detention Centre
22 October 2024 | 10:51 am

Responding to the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission’s (EAIC) findings of physical and mental abuse in the Bidor Temporary Immigration Depot which led to the attempted escape of 131 detainees, on 1 February 2024, and resulted in the death of two detainees, Nicole Fong, the Research and Advocacy Officer of Amnesty International Malaysia said: “Amnesty International […]

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Responsive campaigning Global
Crisis response

Amnesty is urgently calling for a sustained ceasefire by all parties to prevent further loss of civilian lives amidst an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza.

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Community is Everything Australia
Northern Territory election: here’s what you need to know
28 August 2024 | 11:30 am

Update 28/08/2024: Territorians headed to the polls on Saturday and voted strongly in favour of The Country Liberal Party (CLP). Chief Minister-elect Lia Finocchiaro, said the work would begin Sunday in “the start of a new day and a new chapter”. That is, promising to lower the age of criminal responsibility to just 10 years […]

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AI UK staged a silent vigil in solidarity with civilians in Rafah outside Downing Street to draw attention to the plight of some 1.4 million Palestinian civilians who are at acute risk in any full-scale Israeli military assault on the city, 14 February 2024, London, UK
Responsive campaigning Global
UK: Granting of permission to join arms to Israel legal challenge welcomed 
14 June 2024 | 2:16 pm

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch given permission to intervene in judicial review case Responding to the High Court this morning granting permission for Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to intervene in an ongoing legal challenge by Al-Haq and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) to the UK’s transfer of arms to Israel, Sacha […]

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