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The current forced displacement of almost 2 million Palestinians and mass destruction of civilian property and infrastructure in the occupied Gaza Strip puts a spotlight on Israel’s appalling record of displacing Palestinians and its ongoing refusal to respect their right to return for the last 76 years, said Amnesty International marking Nakba Day. The day […]

In response to announcements made in the Federal Budget, Refugee Rights Campaigner Zaki Haidari says, “In 2022, Labor committed to increase the annual refugee and humanitarian intake to 27,000 with 10,000 additional places for the community sponsored places. However, they failed to deliver on the promise they made to the Australian people before the election.” […]

MEDIA RELEASE Labor’s third federal budget has failed to provide desperately needed funding for justice reinvestment programmes and youth diversionary programmes that successfully keep young people out of the criminal justice system. Instead of funding programmes that support young people at risk of being criminalised and see them change the direction of their lives, the […]

Amnesty International Australia calls for governments, police, and universities to respect student’s right to protest. Amnesty International Australia stands in solidarity with students courageously protesting Australian universities’ associations with the Israeli military and government and against the human rights catastrophe being inflicted on the civilians of Gaza. Amnesty International has documented a series of war […]

The 15th of May marks the forced expulsion and displacement of 700,000 thousand Palestinians during the conflict that created the State of Israel in 1948. Since then, al Nakba (The Catastrophe), as it is known in Arabic, has been engraved in Palestinian collective consciousness as a story of relentless dispossession. The crimes that were committed […]

AMNESTY INTERNATIONALPRESS RELEASE10 MAY 2024 The Israeli authorities’ demolition on 8 May 2024 of 47 homes in Wadi al-Khalil, an unrecognized Palestinian/Bedouin village in the Negev/Naqab, without proper consultation or compensation underscores the urgency to dismantle Israel’s apartheid system, said Amnesty International today. The demolition orders against the Abu Assa neighbourhood in Wadi al-Khalil were […]

Responding to the recent ground invasion in Rafah, Amnesty International Australia’s Occupied Palestinian Territories and Israel Spokesperson, Mohamed Duar said: “The horrifying escalation in Rafah risks catastrophe for 1.5 million Gazans already at grave risk of genocide. “No one and nowhere is safe. Palestinians have already suffered unspeakable horrors under constant bombardment and been displaced […]

Call on the Parliamentary Joint Committee to recommend legislating a federal Human Rights Act.

The purpose of this resource is to empower you with the tools and knowledge needed to navigate information, conversations and the complexities of refugee rights campaigning in Australia. Australia played an important role in resettling vulnerable refugees through the Refugee and Humanitarian Program, but we can be doing so much more. Due to the impacts […]

The crises that are taking place in countries such as Ukraine, Afghanistan and Myanmar have resulted in more than 100 million people currently displaced around the world. That means that one in every 78 people on earth has been forced to flee their homes. Despite this harrowing reality, Australia is turning its back. In 2020, […]