The initial findings of Amnesty International’s recent detention centre visits, reiterate the organisation’s long held position that the indefinite and prolonged detention of asylum seekers in Australia is a failed policy that contravenes human rights standards. The most serious and damaging conditions faced by asylum seekers in immigration detention are the length of time and...

The Bangladesh authorities must honour their pledge to stop extrajudicial executions by a special police force accused of involvement in hundreds of killings, says Amnesty International in this report. "Crimes Unseen: Extrajudicial Executions in Bangladesh" also documents how the Rapid Action Battalion justify these killings as accidental or as a result of officers acting in...

Funding decisions made at all levels of government are driving Aborigines off their traditional lands, to the detriment of their well being. This report highlights the struggle of Aboriginal Peoples to remain on their homelands inthe face of policies that have the effect of drawing them away from their ancestral landsinto larger communities and urban...

A decade after Timor-Leste voted for independence, a culture of impunity continues to haunt the country's people. The U. N. Security Council should establish an International Criminal tribunal with jurisdiction over all grave human rights violations surrounding Timor-Leste's 1999 independence referendum and in the previous 24 years of Indonesian occupation, says Amnesty International in this...

When the internet first arrived in China in the 1990s, it was hoped a free and uncontrolled world wide web would help transform the world's most populous country into a more open society. Today, China is widely recognised as having developed the most advanced system of internet repression in the world, and instead of the...