Accusations of deliberate, cruel abuse of refugee children must prompt a more humane approach
An implementation gap means Australian courts cannot directly enforce children's rights as protected in international law.
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Amnesty-Human Rights Watch investigation reports medical neglect and assaults on Nauru
Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru routinely face neglect by Australian-hired health workers and frequent unpunished assaults by local Nauruans, according to an investigation.
Should prostitution be decriminalized?
Empirical evidence and a recommendation from Amnesty International are making it increasingly difficult for naysayers to ignore the ways that sex workers are harmed by criminalization.
Heavy-handed police tactics raise concerns about democracy in Uganda
The heavy-handed tactics used by Uganda's authorities during the 2016 elections have raised questions about a return to an oppressive past.
Vila Autódromo: the favela fighting back against Rio’s Olympic development
Residents of Rio's favelas are facing forced evictions – but they're not moving out without a fight.
Amnesty accuses Australia of violating international law – but any prosecutions are unlikely
Amnesty International believes its evidence shows that Australia organised or directed the crew of an asylum seeker boat to commit the crime of people smuggling into Indonesia.
Amnesty alleges criminal activity in border control
An Amnesty International investigation has found Australian officials may have paid money to the crew of a boat intercepted in July – the second such alleged incident.
Scientists score one over celebrities in battle to decriminalize sex work
Ignoring the protests of Hollywood actresses, Amnesty International has come out for the decriminalization of prostitution.
Does decriminalising pimping further women’s rights?
While being supported by many sex industry groups, feminists have labelled Amnesty International's decriminalisation of prostitution a betrayal of women's rights.
Sorry Amnesty, decriminalising sex work will not protect human rights
Both sides of the debate claim to have the evidence, but only one is right.
Celebrity activists get it wrong on Amnesty International’s sex work policy
There is a wider social, economic and cultural context in which sex work occurs. The criminalisation of consensual adult sex work does not prevent violence – it exacerbates it.
Barbaric and futile: world must do away with state-sponsored killing
Capital punishment is unfairly imposed, innocent people are regularly condemned and it is patently ineffective in deterring crime. So why to states retain the death penalty?
Dominican Republic has taken citizenship from up to 200,000 and is getting away with it
International reporting of the Caribbean country's migrant crisis is in danger of missing the point of what the authorities have actually done.
Why Hamas still relies on violent repression to control Gaza
Reports of Hamas's human rights abuses against Palestinians are mounting, and popular support falling – but the movement is going nowhere.
International community must not ignore the plight of ‘Mandela of the Maldives’
This year has been anything but tranquil in the paradise nation of the Maldives – is it time to boycott?
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