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2 April 2020

Amnesty International releases human rights briefing to COVID-19 committee

Essential moves have been made to manage the impact of COVID-19 in New Zealand.

26 March 2020

South Asia: As COVID-19 spreads, fears rise for people at higher risk

** Protect daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners **

9 March 2020

Pho noodles and pandas: How China’s social media users created a new language to beat government censorship on COVID-19

There’s no better example of this linguistic cat-and-mouse game between China’s social media users and the country’s legions of online censors than the current COVID-19 epidemic.

9 March 2020

Women around the world continue to challenge misogynist and sexist discourses and policies

Millions of women are challenging discourses that demonize them and attempt to jeopardise the feminist movement, as well as advocates of women’s rights, gender equality and sex education.

9 March 2020

Five women activists tell us what climate justice means to them

This International Women’s Day, together with Greenpeace, we asked five women activists what climate justice means to them and how we can all harness the power of diversity to ensure a just and sustainable future for everyone.