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The right to protest is a fundamental human right. However, all too often it is stripped away from us.

New Amnesty global polling reveals that 81% of Australians who plan to watch the World Cup support compensation.

While the Covid-19 crisis is continuing and has severely impacted the health of millions throughout the world, there is another ongoing crisis that is already threatening our right to health and it is set to get worse: the climate crisis. Heatwaves throughout the world are impacting the health of children and the elderly the most, […]

Amnesty International Australia apologises for the pain and anger caused by the publication of an extended press release on August 4 2022 regarding the actions of the Ukrainian resistance to Russian invasion. We recognise that we should have set out framing and contextualization of the press release in more detail, including referring to the multiple […]

Amnesty International Australia Refugee Rights Campaigner Zaki Haidari, discusses his battle as a refugee living in Australia on a temporary protection visa, hoping that the new government will end the injustice. Australia has given me refuge – but it’s conditional. I’ve been living here for the past decade, temporary visa to temporary visa, never certain […]

Conversion practices, also known as Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Change Efforts (SOGICE), are formal therapeutic and informal practices which target LGBTQA+ people of faith with the false ideology that their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender and sexual expression can be changed or suppressed. While these practices are commonly misrepresented in the media as […]

With Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr and Sara Duterte poised to win the Philippine elections, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Deputy Regional Director Emerlynne Gil said: “Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr and Sara Duterte’s past avoidance of discussing human rights violations in the Philippines is deeply concerning. During the campaign period, it seemed that they were deliberately refusing to […]

Investors in companies manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines must use their influence to ensure that supplies of urgently needed life-saving vaccines reach low- and lower-middle-income countries, Amnesty International said today ahead of the Annual General Meetings (AGM) of Johnson and Johnson, Moderna and Pfizer on 28 April and AstraZeneca on 29 April. With the World Health Organization’s […]

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