Egypt’s National Security Agency (NSA) is abducting, torturing and forcibly disappearing people in an effort to intimidate opponents and wipe out peaceful dissent, as highlighted by a damning new report published by Amnesty International today which shows an unprecedented spike in enforced disappearances since early 2015. Egypt: ‘Officially, you do not exist’: Disappeared and tortured […]
A poignant new video experiment breaking down barriers between recently-arrived refugees and Europeans will be launched globally by Amnesty International on 25 May 2016. The video, Look Beyond Borders, filmed by Amnesty International Poland in Berlin in April 2016, is based on a theory that four minutes of uninterrupted eye contact increases intimacy. Amnesty International […]
A new global survey commissioned by Amnesty International shows that 80% of people would welcome refugees fleeing danger into their own countries. The Refugees Welcome Index, based on a global survey of more than 27,000 people and carried out by strategy consultancy GlobeScan, ranks 27 countries across all continents based on people’s willingness to let […]
Every year, Amnesty supporters across the globe write millions of letters on behalf of people whose basic human rights are being attacked. During late 2015 and early 2016, our supporters around the world wrote an astonishing 3.7 million letters, messages, emails and tweets as part of our global letter-writing marathon, Write for Rights. Success In […]
We’re looking for volunteers to join our amazing team of Social Media Moderators. Applications close 5pm, Monday 20 February. Amnesty International Australia’s (AIA) Social Media Volunteer Moderators help build our presence on the web by spending one hour each week moderating comments on our social media pages and inboxes. Volunteers help to amplify our human […]
June Oscar AO is a Bunuba Leader from the Fitzroy Valley, Western Australia. Here she discusses Aboriginal youth justice in Western Australia and her vision of the solution — community programs that support young people and families. What’s the problem? There are many complex issues stemming from Western Australia’s colonial legacy. One issue is that […]
Could the results of Afghanistan’s presidential election see the return of the Taliban? And what would that mean for the future of Afghan women? As 8 candidates battle it out in the Afghanistan presidential election*, women in the country are growing increasingly worried. Combine an early withdrawal of international forces with the fact that many […]