Nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people against COVID-19 next year unless urgent action is taken by governments and the pharmaceutical industry to make sure enough doses are produced, a group of campaigning organisations warned today, (optional, for UK version: as the UK begins vaccinations this week). By […]
Governments who were lauded for releasing prisoners in response to COVID-19 outbreaks have excluded human rights defenders from the measures and continue to make new arrests of activists, journalists and critics, Amnesty International said today. In a new briefing, “Daring to Stand up for Human Rights in a Pandemic”, which documents attacks on human rights […]
Amnesty International Australia is calling on the Mantra Bell City Hotel in Melbourne and Kangaroo Point Central Hotel in Brisbane to end their contracts with the Federal Government to detain refugees held in crowded, unsafe conditions. Management of the Mantra Group and Central Apartment Group that runs Kangaroo Point have not responded to Amnesty’s letters […]
Two years after the fatal shooting of the human rights defender and Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco, and her driver, Anderson Gomes, on 14 March 2018, the crime remains unsolved and has become an example of the impunity regarding violence against human rights defenders in Brazil, said Amnesty International today. “Two years is […]
Human rights advocate and Game Over ambassador Craig Foster updates us on the campaign to end offshore detention and get people trapped in Papua New Guinea and Nauru to safety. Thank you so much for your continued support of the Game Over campaign. We’re now a movement of 50,000 everyday Australians and building. Together we […]
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According to one of the largest global surveys Amnesty International has ever undertaken, young Australian adults echoed the concerns of their counterparts in 22 countries by nominating climate change as the most important issue for the global community. Amnesty’s polls asked young adults to give their views on the current state of human rights in […]
The Iraqi authorities must ensure anti-riot police and other security forces in Baghdad immediately stop using two previously unseen types of tear gas grenade to kill rather than disperse protesters, Amnesty International urged today after its investigation found they caused at least five protester deaths in as many days. Amnesty International carried out telephone and […]
The past few months have seen a seemingly massive surge in protests globally.
Eyewitnesses report security forces ‘choking’ protesters with large amounts of tear gas, spraying hot water on crowds and firing live ammunition Many received shrapnel injuries, some consistent with police use of stun grenades Internet cut off, with one protester saying ‘We are cut off from the world. It’s just us and the forces here facing […]
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