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Online booking agents profiting from illegal Israeli settlements.

Iranian authorities crushed protests and arrested thousands in a 2018 crackdown on dissent.

Pacific Islands must call on Australia to act over indefinite detention of refugees seeking asylum.

Amnesty International is extremely concerned to see the details of a report out today on the relationship between some government agencies and the private investigation firm Thompson and Clark. 

Amnesty publishes review of human rights in 2018

Women activists around the world have been at the forefront of the battle for human rights in 2018, Amnesty International said today as it launched its review on the state of human rights over the past year.

Already traumatised refugee and asylum seeker population on Manus being hit hard by cuts to healthcare and services.

Human Rights Agenda outlines six essential priorities ahead of Fiji elections.

Amnesty International is urging the New Zealand Government to walk the talk on human rights in advance of its four-yearly review before the UN Human Rights Committee in January.

In response to Prime Minister Ardern’s announcement today that New Zealand’s refugee quota would be lifted to 1500 people per year by July 2020, Meg de Ronde, Campaigns Director for Amnesty International said,