We, as a coalition of organisations and community groups from around Australia, are writing to express our concern regarding the humanitarian crisis that Australia has created. Successive Australian governments have managed and funded offshore detention camps on Manus Island and Nauru. The people detained there are clearly Australia’s responsibility. This situation has reached crisis point, […]
Every year write for rights gets bigger and better, and in 2016, Amnesty activists across the globe collected an astounding 3.4 million actions (and counting). Here in Australia, we gathered a phenomenal 125,000 actions! A massive thank you to all of you who helped us reach this staggering figure. We’d like to give a big […]
Amnesty International Australia’s Organising Team has been working with thousands of grassroots activists across the country in 2016 to build a stronger, more resourceful activist base. We’ve been developing the skills of our existing and future activist leaders in readiness for our 2020 vision work. Here are some highlights of what we’ve achieved in 2016: […]
World-renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is joining forces with Amnesty International to mobilize hundreds of thousands of supporters around the world to inundate the White House with messages in support of Edward Snowden, as part of the world’s biggest human rights campaign, launched today. The Write for Rights campaign in Australia, with local events taking […]
Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers being detained and forcibly returned Lack of water, food and medical care Both governments preventing thousands from accessing aid Harrowing details of Myanmar military attacks on villages As the Myanmar authorities are subjecting the Rohingya Muslim minority to collective punishment, thousands of refugees who have made it across the border to […]
By Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s Secretary General That which unites us is always greater than that which divides us. Yet, around the world, the forces of division seem to be gathering momentum. Walls rising up along borders, hatred and fear welling up within and between populations, repressive laws assailing basic freedoms. The US election results, […]
Today marks 100 days since the new Turnbull Government Ministry was sworn in. That’s plenty of time to show us its human rights credentials, so we asked Amnesty supporters around the country to rate the Turnbull Government’s leadership in defending human rights. The results are in – and you’re not impressed Nearly 5,000 Amnesty supporters […]
Two years on from Egypt’s Rabaa massacre many ordinary Egyptians still live in the shadow of what happened that day. Amnesty International campaigner Nadine Haddad describes the violence and its aftermath. 1,000 people dead As you walk through the bustling traffic in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya Square today, you would never know the bloodiest incident in […]
Security forces are using arbitrary and excessive force in response to protests in Jammu and Kashmir, violating international standards and worsening the human rights crisis in the state. At least 78 people, including two security force personnel, have been killed in the state since 8 July, following protests and violent clashes after the killing of […]
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