Across late 2017 early 2018, Amnesty ran the Group Health Check (GHC) survey for the first time in two years. A big thanks to our action group convenors and members who took part in the survey. This survey is opportunity for Amnesty to take the temperature of our action groups and to assess if our […]
Human rights campaigning is a long-game, and it can take years to see the results of our work – especially so for our refugee campaign. You may feel disheartened that the Australian Government has continued its harsh treatment of asylum seekers, but your work in 2017 has made a real difference for people in detention […]
Only around one in three Australians (36%) think the Turnbull Government is doing enough to protect kids in children’s prisons from abuse. This is the finding of a ReachTEL poll commissioned by Amnesty International, ahead of Friday’s release of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory report. The […]
Join our International Council Meeting (ICM) delegates for an update on the results of the resolutions and the changes to global governance that will impact us from early 2018. Our two-yearly International Council Meeting took place in August, seeing amazing moments and achievements made by our member-led global human rights movement. Our six Australian delegates […]
As Australians around the country await the results of the marriage equality survey, due to be announced on 15 November, Professor Mark McMillan explains why marriage equality matters to him, his family and his community. Society can change I am a proud Wiradjuri man and I come from a line of strong, sovereign Wiradjuri women. […]
The Madman Anime Festival will run for two days at the Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre on the 4th & 5th of November 2017. This pop-culture convention will consist of many anime pop-culture stalls and displays from all sorts of anime companies and products. We will have an Amnesty International stall within this event as […]
Following President Trump’s decision to revoke the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme, affecting the future of nearly 800,000 people in the US, journalist Liz Fields takes a look at the upshot of Trump’s presidency — so far — on human rights and civil liberties. A new world order has set in, and an […]
The Lebanese authorities must disclose the full findings of their investigation into the deaths of four Syrian refugees, said Amnesty International, after the country’s military prosecutor yesterday revealed that a forensic report concluded that they had died of “natural causes”. The men died after they were arrested in a military raid on the town of […]
‘Reconciliation is everyone working together for the same cause, and we’ve still got some work to do on this.’ As part of our National Reconciliation Week (27 May to 3 June) activities this year I am pleased to announce the launch of Amnesty International’s 2017-2020 Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). To keep our action groups, […]
