http://www.amnesty.org.au/campaigns/ Get involved with Amnesty International's campaigns and take action to defend human rights. en Copyright 2016 2016-09-12T23:41:10+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42471/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42471/#When:23:41:10Z Two refugees with muscular dystrophy have made a remarkable journey from Syria to a refugee camp in Greece to escape the armed group that calls itself Islamic State (IS). Campaign Features, Blog 2016-09-12T23:41:10+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/42443/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/42443/#When:05:07:26Z Chills ran down Tomás Gómez Membreño’s spine when he first heard about the brutal murder of his renowned friend and ally, the Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres, six months ago this week. Erika Guevara-Rosas, our Americas Director, takes a look at the current situation. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-09-06T05:07:26+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42390/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42390/#When:23:29:15Z Anna Neistat - Senior Director for Research at Amnesty International - recounts witnessing 'patterns of horrendous abuse' occurring under Australia's offshore detention program. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-08-24T23:29:15+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42272/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42272/#When:00:56:58Z Anna Neistat, Senior Director of Research at Amnesty International recounts the shocking situation she found refugees and asylum seekers living in on her recent research mission to Nauru. Campaign Feature 2016-08-05T00:56:58+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42244/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42244/#When:20:00:03Z The Australian Government is forcing 1,200 men, women and children seeking safety in Australia to live in abhorrent conditions in Nauru. Campaign Feature 2016-08-01T20:00:03+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42198/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42198/#When:05:41:01Z Around 48,000 refugees and migrants are still stranded in Greece, many in terrible conditions in state-run camps. Amnesty International recently visited and documented some of their stories. Campaign Feature 2016-07-26T05:41:01+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/hrs/comments/42153/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/hrs/comments/42153/#When:23:54:12Z Verónica Razo, a Mexican 37-year-old mother of three is terrified of sleeping. Every night, when she lies in her bed in a small cell in Morelo's federal prison, an hour outside the capital, Mexico City, her mind replays the scariest 24 hours of her life. Campaign Feature 2016-07-18T23:54:12+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/42088/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/42088/#When:04:07:49Z It’s been one year since China began its assault on human rights lawyers and activists across the country on 9 July 2015. We take a look at the key events as they unfolded and the situation today. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-07-06T04:07:49+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/42069/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/42069/#When:00:52:28Z Amnesty supporters worldwide wrote thousands of letters on behalf of Filep Karma who was released from prison in November 2015. Today, he shares why he won’t stop fighting for freedom of expression in Indonesia. Campaign Feature 2016-07-01T00:52:28+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/42066/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/42066/#When:05:36:10Z – and how they’re getting away with it. Campaign Feature 2016-06-30T05:36:10+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42004/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/42004/#When:02:30:36Z On World Refugee Day, we talk to Ghias Aljundi, who fled to the UK from Syria 18 years ago. He is one of thousands volunteering to help refugees arriving in Greece since last year. But he’d never expected that one day he’d rescue his own family from a rubber boat. Campaign Feature 2016-06-20T02:30:36+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41958/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41958/#When:07:12:48Z As the world mourns Muhammad Ali, South Korea continues to imprison hundreds of conscientious objectors. Campaign Feature 2016-06-14T07:12:48+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41926/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41926/#When:02:00:49Z Vu Minh Khanh hasn’t seen or heard from her husband Nguyen Van Dai since police arrested him in December 2015. This is her story. Campaign Feature 2016-06-08T02:00:49+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/hrs/comments/41905/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/hrs/comments/41905/#When:00:12:27Z The story of the men and women whose unimaginable pain and courage led to a global ban on torture Campaign Feature 2016-06-06T00:12:27+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41871/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41871/#When:01:14:51Z To mark 1 June – International Children’s Day – Raha Bahreini from our Iran team describes how Amnesty has managed to raise awareness about the death penalty and save juvenile offenders from the gallows in Iran. Campaign Feature 2016-06-01T01:14:51+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/41864/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/41864/#When:07:14:13Z On 4 May the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee tabled its interim report on the alleged payments by Australian officials to Indonesia crew members to turn back their boats. Campaign Feature 2016-05-31T07:14:13+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41824/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41824/#When:01:56:09Z For many years Amnesty International has documented human rights violations against sex workers in countries all over the world. Today we launch four detailed research reports into the situation for sex workers in Argentina, Hong Kong, Norway and Papua New Guinea. The picture is grim. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-05-25T01:56:09+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41819/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41819/#When:06:21:37Z Indonesian-born Ken Matahari, Activism Support Coordinator at Amnesty, once believed that the death penalty was necessary for the very worst crimes. Seven years later, he now supports its worldwide abolition. Here, Ken explains his journey. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-05-23T06:21:37+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41794/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41794/#When:01:27:54Z The armed men who burst into the house of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres on 3 March had a simple plan: find her, kill her, and leave. What they didn’t expect, however, is for Gustavo Castro, a human rights activist working with Friends of the Earth Mexico and a close friend of Berta’s, to be in the next room. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-05-18T01:27:54+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/svaw/comments/41698/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/svaw/comments/41698/#When:04:03:25Z We profile the courageous girls who are standing up to forced marriage in Burkina Faso. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-05-02T04:03:25+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41676/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41676/#When:22:52:10Z Today marks one year since eight men were executed in Indonesia, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Amnesty International’s Crisis Campaigner, Diana Sayed reflects on Amnesty’s #KeepHopeAlive campaign, what has happened in the 12 months since and where the world is headed in the abolishment of the death penalty. Campaign Feature 2016-04-28T22:52:10+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41531/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41531/#When:01:19:32Z 2015 saw a dramatic rise in the number of people executed – at least 1,634 – the highest recorded by Amnesty International since 1989. Campaign Feature 2016-04-06T01:19:32+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41483/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/41483/#When:23:00:13Z 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. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-03-23T23:00:13+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41305/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/adp/comments/41305/#When:03:32:44Z Ali al-Nimr was just 17 when he was arrested on 14 February 2012, a few months after taking part in anti-government rallies in Saudi Arabia. He was sentenced to death following a deeply unfair trial based on “confessions” he says were obtained through torture. His mother, Nassra al-Ahmed, tells their story. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-02-16T03:32:44+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/41188/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/41188/#When:02:18:05Z Our new report ‘I want a safe place: Refugee women from Syria uprooted and unprotected in Lebanon' reveals that Syrian refugee women don’t feel safe in Lebanon. Here are four reasons why, and four possible solutions. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-02-02T02:18:05+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/41177/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/41177/#When:03:57:05Z As Denmark proposes delaying family reunification, the story of Syrian refugees Omar and his family shows why the right to a family life is worth fighting for. Campaign Features, Blog 2016-01-29T03:57:05+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/hrs/comments/41098/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/hrs/comments/41098/#When:05:18:16Z People power is behind the success of all our work and we’d like to share with you some of the top recent successes that we’ve achieved together in our fight to stop torture globally. Campaign Feature 2016-01-14T05:18:16+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/38384/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/iar/comments/38384/#When:04:21:05Z Undeterred by threats, physical attacks and prison, human rights lawyer Robert Sann Aung has been defending activists in Myanmar for more than 30 years. After the recent elections in Myanmar, he talks to us about his hopes for his country. Campaign Features, Blog 2015-11-09T04:21:05+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/38329/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/38329/#When:14:01:05Z Our new report reveals damning evidence of Australian officials paying boat crews to return people seeking asylum to Indonesia. Campaign Feature 2015-10-28T14:01:05+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/38269/ http://www.amnesty.org.au/refugees/comments/38269/#When:04:56:38Z Our new report uncovers the truth about why the Rohingya refugees have fled their homes, their traumatic journey to Indonesia, and their uncertain future. Campaign Feature 2015-10-21T04:56:38+00:00