Amnesty International Australia
About this original series
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Category
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# Episodes
89 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of Amnesty International Australia
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The true tragedy: delays and failures in tacklin...
In August and December 2008, two major oil spills disrupted the lives of the 69,000 or so people living in Bodo, a town in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta. Both spills continued for weeks before they were stopped. Three years on, the prolonged failure of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (Shell), a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, to clean up the oil that was spilled, continues to have catastrophic consequences for the Bodo community. Read more: http://www.amnesty.org.au/news/com...
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Release date
Nov 9, 2011
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Runtime
04:09
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Sri Lanka LLRC inquiry is fundamentally flawed
Sam Zarifi, Program Director for Asia-Pacific Region at Amnesty International, tells us why the Sri Lankan 'Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission' inquiry is fundamentally flawed. The LLRC was established by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in May 2010 after UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon announced that he would appoint a Panel of Experts to advise him on accountability issues in Sri Lanka -- a move opposed by the Sri Lankan government. The Secretary-General appointed the Panel in respon...
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Release date
Sep 7, 2011
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Runtime
06:54
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Amnesty International - Somalia: Children facing...
Somalia is not only a humanitarian crisis: it is a human rights crisis and a children's crisis. As a child in Somalia, you risk death all the time: you can be killed, recruited and sent to the frontline, punished by al-Shabab because you are caught listening to music or 'wearing the wrong clothes.' You could be forced to fend for yourself because you have lost your parents or even die because you don't have access to adequate medical care. The scale of war crimes affecting chuildren, including...
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Release date
Jul 20, 2011
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Runtime
02:09
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Ivory Coast - Both sides responsible for war cri...
Forces allied to both former Côte d’Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo and incumbent Alassane Ouattara committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during six months of deadly violence following disputed elections.“Human rights violations are still being committed against real or perceived supporters of Laurent Gbagbo both in Abidjan and in the west of the country,” said Gaëtan Mootoo, Amnesty International’s West Africa researcher. ;“Alassane Ouattara’s failure to condemn these acts could be...
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Release date
May 24, 2011
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Runtime
08:11
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Amnesty International Report 2011
Read more: http://www.amnesty.org.au/report/2011
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Release date
May 12, 2011
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Runtime
05:57
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Amnesty International - 2011 at a glance
Amnesty International Report 2011.
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Release date
May 10, 2011
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Runtime
05:57
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Amnesty International - North Korea's prison camps
Amnesty International Director for Asia Pacific Sam Zarifi on the conditions inside North Korea's prison camps.
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Release date
May 3, 2011
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Runtime
01:38
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Amnesty International - Satellite imagery reveal...
Susan Wolfinbarger from the American Association for the Advancement of Science analyses fresh satellite images that reveal the true extend of North Korea's prison camps. ;
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Release date
May 3, 2011
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Runtime
01:16
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Amnesty International - Sri Lanka: Time for the ...
Kasipillai Manoharan’s son, Ragihar was killed by the security forces in the East of Sri Lanka in January 2006. Dr Manoharan expected the Sri Lankan authorities to take action. He came forward to act as a witness. ; He wanted the domestic criminal justice system to show that it would hold the killers of his son to account. This system failed. In fact there was executive interference in the cover up of the Trinco 5 case, Dr Manoharan himself received threats and he was forced to flee the countr...
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Release date
Apr 13, 2011
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Runtime
01:34
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Rethink Refugees - Rev. Elenie Poulos' story
As an ordained Minister of the Uniting Church in Australia and the Director of the Church’s national agency, UnitingJustice Australia, Elenie Poulos is a dedicated campaigner for human rights. She believes that the right to seek asylum is a basic human right and consistently speaks out against unfair treatment of asylum seekers especially those arriving by boats. “The level of attention and the shrillness of the debate have been out of all proportion to the numbers of arrivals which are, relat...
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Release date
Apr 7, 2011
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Runtime
03:09
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