A major report by Amnesty International has condemned Australia's treatment of asylum seekers as a "deliberate and systematic regime" of neglect and cruelty, amounting to torture. Released Monday, the ...

Amnesty International Australia issued a statement on Tuesday denouncing the Australian federal government’s newly proposed bill reintroducing punitive measures targeting a group of people released ...

In the aftermath of recent events, the spotlight has recently been locked on gun control, especially in countries where it has been most successful. Arguably, the place that's made the most headlines ...

Amnesty International has accused a private contractor of making millions of dollars from “torture” of refugees and asylum seekers at the Australian government’s offshore immigration centre on Nauru.

Australia's bishops are discussing Amnesty International’s new policy to advocate for the decriminalization of abortion worldwide, with the intention of presenting a unified response. Many Christians, ...

Amnesty International’s 2021/22 report, which looks at human rights developments around the world, revealed the Australian Government’s continued detainment of children as young as 10 years old, the ...

More than 57,000 illegal firearms, many of them automatic or semi-automatic weapons, have been handed in under an Australian amnesty that authorities Thursday said had made the country safer. A final ...

Australia has announced a three-month gun amnesty in an attempt to stop some of the country’s 260,000 illegal firearms from falling into the hands of terrorists. From July 1, owners of unregistered ...

It will be the first Australia-wide amnesty since a gun buy-back program in 1996 that followed a lone gunman killing 35 people in Tasmania state. Australia will allow gun owners to hand in illegal ...

Australia says it collected more than 57,000 illegal firearms during a three-month amnesty last year – the first such program since tough gun laws were enacted in the wake of the country's worst mass ...