Hong Kong: Mass arrest of opposition figures highlights repressive power of national security law
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Responding to the arrests of around 50 Hong Kong opposition figures on Wednesday morning for violation of the city’s national security...
COVID-19 hits those shackled by oppression hardest thanks to decades of inequalities, neglect and...
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Pandemic lays bare massive systemic inequality worldwide with ethnic minorities, health workers, and women among the most severely impacted
Report finds COVID-19...
PAPUAN SPECIAL AUTONOMY LAW MUST ENSURE PROTECTION OF INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND MEANINGFUL INVOLVEMENT OF...
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Following the Indonesian House of Representatives renewal of the special autonomy law for Papua and West Papua, Amnesty International Indonesia and...
Syria: Repatriate at least 27,000 children held in dire conditions in north-east Syria
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Tens of thousands of children have been arbitrarily deprived of their liberty and exposed to life-threatening and inhumane conditions in al-Hol,...
UK: Older people in care homes abandoned to die amid government failures during COVID-19...
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Key failings included decisions to discharge thousands of untested hospital patients into care homes and imposition of blanket DNARs
Care home managers...
Bangladesh: Plan to relocate hundreds of Rohingya to remote island must be dropped
Source: Amnesty International NZ
The Bangladeshi authorities must abandon plans to relocate more than 100 Rohingya families to a remote island in the Bay of...
Saudi Arabia: Release of women’s rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul long overdue
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Responding to the news that the Saudi Arabian human rights defender Loujain al-Hathloul was released from prison earlier today, Amnesty International’s...
China: Australian-Chinese writer held on ‘baseless’ spying charges must get fair trial
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Yang Hengjun faces possible death sentence for espionage
Writer has reportedly already endured more than 300 separate interrogations
‘The charges against Yang appear...
UN: Recognition of the right to a healthy environment is a milestone in the...
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Responding to the Human Rights Council’s adoption of a resolution recognizing the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment,...
33 human rights wins to celebrate this year
Source: Amnesty International NZ
It’s been a busy year for Amnesty International with positive changes taking place around the world. Laws have been rewritten, awards...
Lebanon: Beirut explosion must be independently investigated
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Responding to the devastating explosion in Beirut yesterday that killed scores of people and left thousands more injured, Julie Verhaar, Acting...
Cambodia: Probe into Thai exile’s enforced disappearance moving at snail’s pace, has glaring gaps
Source: Amnesty International NZ
The Cambodian authorities must redouble their efforts to thoroughly, independently and impartially investigate the disappearance of Thai dissident Wanchalearm Satsaksit and...
