By Dr Meg Perkins, PhD MAPS Most experts in the world agree that 10 years old is far too young to be held criminally responsible, and certainly far too young to be in prison. This is my view as a psychologist, having studied the neurological issues related to children in prison. In short: if you […]
Over the past few years, Amnesty International offices on four continents have been working to support refugees in a way and on a scale never seen before. The goal? To increase the number of people who can start their lives in a safe country. The method? Community sponsorship. At its heart, community sponsorship is a […]
Police in the Philippines are operating with total impunity killing people from poor neighbourhoods as part of President Duterte’s murderous anti-drugs campaign, Amnesty International said today. In a new report, “They just kill”, Amnesty is calling for the UN Human Rights Council to immediately open an investigation into gross human rights violations and possible crimes […]
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 […]
On Tuesday February 10, news trickled into Amnesty’s offices that the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Gulzar Duishenova, one of 2018’s Write for Rights cases, has been campaigning for ratification for 15 years. She’s made it her life’s mission to ensure people with disabilities can live with […]
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 […]
