Press Release

In response to an announcement by Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie that she will not support the repeal of the Medevac Bill unless a certain, unknown condition is met, Amnesty International Australia Refugee Advisor Graham Thom said:

The international community must denounce the intentional lethal use of force by Iranian security forces that has resulted in the killings of at least 143 protesters.

Responding to another leak of official Chinese government documents (labelled “The China Cables”) detailing the framework for facilities that led to abuses of hundreds of thousands of predominantly Muslim ethnic groups in detention camps in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (Xinjiang), Amnesty International’s Campaigns Director for East Asia, Lisa Tassi, said:

Police cells are no place for children.

Amnesty International has today (22/10/19) made its submission to the Abortion Legislation Committee in Wellington.

Two years on, a generation of refugee children are missing out on school.

Amnesty International welcomes a global day of school strikes against climate change, happening in 98 countries and counting.

Governments across the world are increasingly attacking non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by creating laws that subject them and their staff to surveillance, nightmarish bureaucratic hurdles and the ever-present threat of imprisonment.

Medivac Bill a welcome step for refugees on Manus and Nauru, but reopening of Christmas Island disappointing.