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Australian government must end state-sponsored racially ...
18 November 2009

Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has warned the Australian government not to squander a uniqueopportunity to right historic wrongs.

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Australia: Government must end state-sponsored racially ...
18 November 2009

Slamming decades of failure by Australian governments to address the dire living conditions, disempowerment and discrimination faced by many of the country’s Indigenous ...

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Migration-related detention: A global concern
1 December 2008

Migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees are regularly deprived of their liberty purely for administrative convenience. Many countries use detention to deter people ...

Report       POL 33/004/2008

Australia: Briefing for the Committee on Economic Social and ...
1 May 2008

In this document Amnesty International submits information to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in advance of its pre-sessional working group ...

Report       ASA 12/002/2008

Australia: Up-date to briefing for the Committee against Torture
16 April 2008

This briefing focuses on concerns about: further reports of Indigenous deaths in police custody operations, and in prison custody; a recent report from the Human ...

Report       ASA 12/001/2008

The Wire, April 2008. Vol. 38, No. 3
1 April 2008

1) Conveyor belt of injustice in Nigerian prisons 2) Inside US network of secret jails 3) Liberian women struggle to rebuild their lives after war 4) Trapped in ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/003/2008

Llamada Internacional. Abril de 2008
1 April 2008

Llamada Internacional. Abril de 2008

Newsletter       NWS 21/003/2008

Three Australians spared death penalty in Bali | Amnesty ...
6 March 2008

Three members of the so-called Bali Nine have had their death sentencesreduced to life imprisonment following a judicial review by the SupremeCourt.

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Australia apologises for abuses of Indigenous | Amnesty ...
13 February 2008

Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologised to theIndigenous people who were members of the Stolen Generation and theirfamilies on Wednesday in Parli

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Video: Worldwide actions to close Guantánamo | Amnesty ...
18 January 2008

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