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Amnesty International Supporting Women in the Pacific
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 1:17 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is calling on New Zealanders to take action in combating gender-based violence in the Pacific this White Ribbon Day, 25 November. “We’re asking Kiwis to show they are against violence towards women by not only wearing a white ribbon ... More >>
Amnesty International supporting women in the Pacific
Wednesday, 24 November 2010, 10:14 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is calling on New Zealanders to take action in combating gender-based violence in the Pacific this White Ribbon Day, 25 November. “We’re asking Kiwis to show they are against violence towards women by not only wearing a white ribbon ... More >>
Myanmar Should Free All Prisoners Of Conscience
Sunday, 14 November 2010, 11:35 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today welcomes the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, but calls on the government of Myanmar to immediately release all of the prisoners of conscience in the country. More >>
Amnesty Calls On Government To Speak Out
Thursday, 11 November 2010, 1:48 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is calling on the New Zealand Government and Fonterra to condemn the two-and-a-half-year sentence given to a Chinese activist who organised a support group for parents of babies made ill by tainted milk. More >>
Amnesty Writes To Clinton & Key Over Human Rights
Friday, 5 November 2010, 2:22 pm | Amnesty International
Scoop Exclusive: Amnesty International in New Zealand and the USA has written to both NZ PM John Key and USA SOS Hillary Clinton detailing a three step approach both countries can take to improving human rights and security for the Afghan people. More >>
Amnesty calls on Key to demand Myanmar's freedom
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 11:04 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is calling on New Zealand Prime Minister John Key to make a strong case for human rights protection in Myanmar when he meets with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders in Hanoi on 28 to 30 October. Key will ... More >>
USA must investigate Wikileaks file abuse claims
Sunday, 24 October 2010, 7:10 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International today called on the USA to investigate how much US officials knew about the torture and other ill-treatment of detainees held by Iraqi security forces after new evidence emerged in files released by the Wikileaks organization ... More >>
Papua 'torture video' must be investigated
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 4:01 pm | Amnesty International
The Indonesian government should initiate an independent investigation into reports of torture and other ill-treatment in Papua over the last two years, Amnesty International said today. More >>
Amnesty International welcomes NZ parliamentarians
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 4:47 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand (AIANZ) has welcomed the New Zealand Parliament’s motion passed today, calling on Myanmar’s authorities to guarantee the three freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly, and to immediately and unconditionally ... More >>
Fiji: Former PM’s rights to free speech
Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 12:17 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is today calling on the government of Fiji to drop Public Emergency Regulations (PER)-related charges against the country’s former prime minister after he was accused of failing to seek permission to hold a public meeting. More >>
Fiji: Former PM’s rights to free speech, assembly
Wednesday, 6 October 2010, 11:23 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is today calling on the government of Fiji to drop Public Emergency Regulations (PER)-related charges against the country’s former prime minister after he was accused of failing to seek permission to hold a public meeting. More >>
New Zealand Tour Of Burmese Political Activist
Friday, 1 October 2010, 5:21 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International Aotearoa NZ is hosting Aung Khaing Min on a four-centre speaking tour, 10-20 October. His visit presents a unique opportunity for New Zealanders to hear a first-hand account of the personal struggles the people of Myanmar face. More >>
Political prisoners in Myanmar must be freed
Friday, 24 September 2010, 2:37 pm | Amnesty International
On the third anniversary of the violent crackdown on the “Saffron Revolution”, Amnesty International calls on the Myanmar government to immediately and unconditionally free all political prisoners arrested for their peaceful activism. More >>
Failure To Respect Human Rights In The Pacific
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 5:16 pm | Amnesty International
The Millennium Development Goals are failing the world’s poorest people because governments are ignoring and abusing their human rights, Amnesty International says as leaders prepare to meet to review progress on the MDGs at a UN summit in New York. More >>
Human Rights Key To Achieving Millennium Goals
Friday, 17 September 2010, 5:56 pm | Amnesty International
"My husband broke my nose and hit me with timber over the back of my head. I went to the police to tell them to arrest him – they said they would do it but they didn’t." Margaret*, Papua New Guinea. Sadly, Margaret’s story is all too familiar More >>
MDGs Excluding The Pacific’s Poorest People
Friday, 17 September 2010, 5:45 pm | Amnesty International
The Millennium Development Goals are failing the world’s poorest, including in the Pacific , because governments are abusing their human rights, Amnesty International says as heads of states prepare to review progress at a UN summit this month. More >>
Failure to respect human rights in the Pacific
Friday, 17 September 2010, 12:42 pm | Amnesty International
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are failing the world’s poorest people, including those in the Pacific region, because governments are ignoring and abusing their human rights, Amnesty International says as heads of states prepare to meet ... More >>
Human Rights Defender Award
Thursday, 9 September 2010, 4:33 pm | Amnesty International
This year celebrities, politicians and ordinary New Zealanders have been telling Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand what human rights mean to them through the organisation’s “I Human Rights campaign”. More >>
Amnesty welcomes investigation of SAS allegations
Monday, 16 August 2010, 12:33 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International has welcomed the Minister of Defence Wayne Mapp’s commitment to investigating the role of New Zealand’s Special Air Service (SAS) in the handling of prisoners in Afghanistan. More >>
Journalism and PR to battle it out
Thursday, 12 August 2010, 4:08 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International Aotearoa NZ, in conjunction with AUT University’s Club PR, is pitting public relations practitioners against journalists next Tuesday to debate whether human rights violations are being overlooked by the New Zealand news media. More >>
