However dire and widespread the human rights abuses of the last year may feel, we each have a role to play in making the world we want to live in a better place for all. Here are just five things you can do for human rights this year: 1) Spread the word on social One […]
Community organising at AIA is about building power, it is about empowering people to be able to take the lead and make change in their own communities. It’s about investing in people and giving them the tools they need so that they can stand up for the human rights issues they are most passionate about. […]
November 2018 Want to find out what is happening next year? Join our NSW regional update on 17 December at 6:30pm to 8:00pm. The NSW Branch Committee wants to share our ideas for 2019, when the BC will become the NSW Activism Leadership Committee (ALC). Who are we and what will we be doing? The […]
The following can be attributed to Victoria Coy, End Gun Violence campaign manager at Amnesty International USA: “The horrifying killings of worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue are the latest example of the tragic results of the politics of hate and fear combined with the devastating impact of gun violence. “We call on leaders at all […]
Only a minority of Australians are aware of the biggest human rights catastrophe in our region – the Myanmar military’s ethnic cleansing of the country’s Rohingya population – and even fewer know that Australia is helping to prop up the murderous regime perpetrating it, a new poll carried out on behalf of Amnesty International has […]
Ahead of a planned “Unite the Right 2” rally in Washington DC and the anniversary of the Charlottesville tragedy on August 12, Amnesty International USA’s executive director Margaret Huang, said: “Failure from our leaders to denounce racial and ethnic hatred has only emboldened those who wish to normalise discrimination. “When President Trump persists in promoting […]
The Palaszczuk Government must act now to keep around 150 Queensland children as young as 10 years old from losing their childhoods in prison each year, said Amnesty International in Brisbane today. The Queensland Government is currently harming 150 children across the state per year at a crucial time in their development, by locking up […]
The Zimbabwean authorities must stop arresting and harassing protesters and bystanders following post-election violence that has killed at least six people, Amnesty International said. More than 60 people have been arbitrarily arrested in the past seven days in a government crackdown on supporters of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), whose leader Nelson Chamisa […]
Authorities must launch a prompt and effective investigation into the army’s killing of three protesters and injury of scores others following post elections violence, said Amnesty International. “It is unfortunate that this election has descended into bloodshed, which could have been avoided if security forces had exercised restraint against protesters. The army’s conduct should be […]
Indonesian security forces have unlawfully killed at least 95 people in little more than eight years in the restive eastern provinces of Papua and West Papua, with the overwhelming majority of perpetrators never being held to account for these crimes, Amnesty International reveals in a new report today. All but 10 of the victims were […]
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