http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/ en Copyright 2016 2016-09-01T03:05:03+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42416/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42416/#When:03:05:03Z More than 17,000 people are estimated to have died in Syrian prisons and detention centres since 2011. Those who survived were forced to take unimaginable measures to come out alive. Campaign Features, Blogs 2016-09-01T03:05:03+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42356/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42356/#When:23:27:10Z Since 2011, thousands of people have died in custody in Syria’s brutal detention centres. Tens of thousands more have experienced shocking torture. Campaign Features 2016-08-17T23:27:10+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42211/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42211/#When:07:53:49Z It’s been seven years since Rio was awarded the Games, promising a safe city for all. And yet, in those same seven years, police have killed over 2,651 people in the city. The majority: young black men. Amidst the Olympic glitter and fanfare, will anyone remember them? Campaign Features 2016-07-28T07:53:49+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42183/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42183/#When:00:23:24Z While a façade of normality has returned to the streets of Istanbul, there can be no doubt that its citizens are living in a very different world to the one they inhabited this time last week. Campaign Features 2016-07-26T00:23:24+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42045/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42045/#When:23:00:09Z There's a darker side to the glitz and glamour of this year’s host city. Campaign Features 2016-06-27T23:00:09+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42040/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/42040/#When:00:19:04Z Venezuela is going through one of the worst economic crisis it has faced in decades. While the government denies there is a problem and refuses to ask for international aid, people are struggling to make ends meet in the midst of rising malnutrition and a healthcare crisis. Campaign Features 2016-06-27T00:19:04+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41916/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41916/#When:02:50:23Z Freedom of expression is under severe threat in Malaysia as Prime Minister Najib Razak seeks to strengthen the repressive Sedition Act of 1948. Activists, opposition politicians, journalists and even social media users are under threat as this law continues to stifle dissent. Campaign Features, Blogs 2016-06-07T02:50:23+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41860/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41860/#When:01:01:13Z Harrowing accounts from residents, who in recent days managed to escape from the Iraqi city of Falluja, which is under control of the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS), paint a frightening picture of starving civilians living under shelling and in constant fear. Campaign Features 2016-05-31T01:01:13+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41737/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41737/#When:04:20:13Z With the war in Syria continuing to rage into its sixth year with no end in sight, Amnesty International’s Crisis Campaigner Diana Sayed looks at what we’ve achieved so far and what still needs to be done. Campaign Features, Blogs 2016-05-09T04:20:13+00:00 http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41608/?utm_source=crisis&utm_medium=feed http://www.amnesty.org.au/crisis/comments/41608/#When:00:53:59Z By shutting their borders, European leaders have trapped thousands in a humanitarian crisis in Greece – and they could easily fix it. Campaign Features 2016-04-18T00:53:59+00:00