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DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS

Individuals at risk Asia

Thailand: Immediately drop unjustified charges against protest leader

24 September 2021 | 10:29 am

Responding to the arrest of prominent Thai rights activist Panusaya “Rung”...

Human Rights Global

Australia must backup its promise not to acquire nuclear weapons by signing UN treaty

22 September 2021 | 11:17 pm

Amnesty International Australia welcomes Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Defence Minister Peter...

COVID-19 Global

New report shows leading Covid-19 vaccine pharma companies fuelling unprecedented human rights crisis

22 September 2021 | 9:00 am

Six companies at the helm of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out are fuelling an unprecedented human...

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Human Rights Pacific

Peace cannot be achieved in Papua if human rights are not respected

21 September 2021 | 4:17 pm

esian government must address past human rights violations and ensure that they are not repeated if...

Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance gate.

Human Rights Middle East

Afghanistan: Taliban wasting no time in stamping out human rights says new briefing

21 September 2021 | 11:22 am

The Taliban are steadily dismantling the human rights gains of the last twenty years, said Amnesty...

Human Rights Africa

Egypt: End National Security Agency’s web of fear controlling activists’ lives

17 September 2021 | 9:51 am

Egypt’s National Security Agency (NSA), which specializes in policing terrorism and political...