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DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS

Human Rights Australia

The Lucky Country for some, but a long way to go on addressing basic human rights breaches in Australia

7 April 2021 | 9:00 am

Australia’s lack of action on climate change, treatment of Indigenous people and the ongoing...

Freedom of expression, association and assembly Asia

Viet Nam: Fresh crackdown as National Assembly election looms

2 April 2021 | 1:00 pm

The Vietnamese authorities must end their crackdown on independent election candidates and critical...

Human Rights Asia

Minister Payne must call out the surge of killings of lawyers and judges in the Philippines

1 April 2021 | 4:19 pm

The Philippine justice system is under threat as a result of a deadly surge in killings of lawyers...

Photograph of the Ethiopian flag flying outside an unidentified official building in the country

Human Rights Africa

Australia must push for a full-blown investigation into potential war crimes in Tigray region

31 March 2021 | 5:22 pm

The human rights violations perpetrated by Eritrean armed forces in the city of Axum, Ethiopia,...

LGBTQI rights Europe

Turkey mustn’t withdraw from the Istanbul Convention: Amnesty International

30 March 2021 | 5:47 pm

On 20 March 2021, Turkish authorities issued a Presidential Decree announcing its imminent...

A medical staff wearing a facemask poses in an isolation ward at a newly inaugurated hospital by the Tamil Nadu state during a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai on March 27, 2020.

Australian Government must immediately vaccinate all 134 refugees still trapped on Papua New Guinea against Covid 19

30 March 2021 | 10:50 am

Following ABC Radio National’s report concerning discrimination towards refugees who have tested...