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TAKE ACTION NOW! Tell the Australian Government---Shut Down Manus
World  (tags: world, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', Australia, humanrights, Refugees&Relief, society, politics )

Cal
- 17 days ago - getup.org.au
The Immigration Department's recent assessment of its own detention centre of Manus Island has found what we've known all along - the conditions in the Manus Island detention centre are inhumane.
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AUSTRALIA: Melbourne Refugees Begin Mass Hunger Strike
World  (tags: Refugees&Relief, politics, world, AUSTRALIA, ACTIVISM, activists, refugees, government, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', freedoms, humanrights, news, society )

Cal
- 37 days ago - greenleft.org.au
24 Sri Lankan, two Iranian and two Rohingyas -- began a hunger strike at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) detention centre.
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Julia Gillard, Australian Prime Minister, Apologizes Over Forced Adoption Policy
World  (tags: world, politics, society, Australia, forced adoptions government, ethics, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Cal
- 58 days ago - globalpost.com
Julia Gillard, Australia's Prime Minister, has apologized over the ''shameful'' practice of forced adoption during the 1950s and 1970s.
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Australia: The Evil Within
World  (tags: world, humanrights, Australia, Indigenous, violence )

Rose
- 116 days ago - asafeworldforwomen.org
he Indian gang rapes and the Steubenville rape in the US have brought sexual assault into focus. But it remains all too common in one part of the Australian community which is too afraid to report it, writes Yatungka Gordon.
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Support Constitutional Recognition for All Australians: Petition
World  (tags: constitutional recognition, petition, discrimination, Australia, indigenous, first people, Aboriginals, Torres Strait Islanders, constitution, law )

Thubten
- 179 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
When our Constitution was first drafted, it made no mention of the special place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first Australians. They were effectively excluded from our founding document of law. More than 100 years on...
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Assange Mother: I'M Terrified of What US Will Do to Julian   video
World  (tags: Julian Assange, Christine Assange, Australia, UK, Sweden, USA, Equador, asylum, Mother, E )

Dandelion
- 214 days ago - youtube.com
This to me is an important video for it not only shows the heart of a Mother but she gives a lot of information on here. I feel many American citizens do not fully grasp many things about their own Country. I hope her words will shed some light.
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Threat to the Tasmanian Devils' Existence- Take Action! Say No to Tarkine Mining
World  (tags: GetUp, opencut mining, Tarkine Forest, Tasmanian Devil, Tasmania, Australia, petition, wilderness, TonyBurke )

Thubten
- 221 days ago - getup.org.au
Burke has refused to grant Emergency Heritage listing for the Tarkine wilderness of Tasmania despite the threat of massive new open cut mine, and has now granted a weak assessment process for the three of those mines. The fate of the Tas' Devil hangs
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Female Circumcision 'Performed on NSW Girls
World  (tags: world, Australia, children, GIRLS, FGM, abuse, humanrights )

Rose
- 246 days ago - news.ninemsn.com.au
Four people in Sydney have been charged with female genital mutilation offences after two young girls were allegedly subject to female circumcision.
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Australian Detention Centres Risk Violating Human Rights
World  (tags: world, Refugees&Relief, news, Australia, detention centers, politics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!' )

Cal
- 261 days ago - ipsnews.net
Australia's recent decision to move asylum seekers to offshore detention facilities has alarmed human rights organisations.
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Fraser Condemns 'Racism' of Refugee Report
World  (tags: world, humanrights, AUSTRALIA, Asylum seekers, freedoms )

Rose
- 274 days ago - maribyrnongweekly.com.au
FORMER Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser says recommendations in the Houston report are ''racist'' and in some ways worse than the Pacific Solution under John Howard. Speaking to The Age over lunch at the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre, Mr Fraser
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"Just" Foreign Policy--Urge President Correa to Grant Asylum to Julian Assange
World  (tags: Julian Assange, Just Foreign Policy, Ecuador, Espionage Act, President Correa, asylum, USA, Australia, UK, Wikileaks )

Dandelion
- 330 days ago - salsa.democracyinaction.org
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who fears being extradited to the U.S. to face charges of violating the Espionage Act for his role in leaking U.S. diplomatic cables, has asked Ecuador for political asylum.
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AUSTRALIA: Young Asylum Seekers Arrive to 'Nightmare' Detention
World  (tags: world, politics, Australia, Refugees&Relief, Refugees&Relief, news, HumanRights, freedoms, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, government, ethics )

Cal
- 343 days ago - ipsnews.net
When Hussain Akhlaqi (17) arrived on Australian shores 11 months ago from Indonesia, on a boat carrying over 100 other asylum seekers, he was immediately placed in the Christmas Island immigration detention centre
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Australia Seeks to Clamp Down on Forced Labor, Organ Trafficking
World  (tags: world, Australia, government, laws, ethics, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', humanrights, freedoms, politics, news )

Cal
- 352 days ago - nst.com.my
n Australia, new legislation aims to combat organ trafficking, forced marriage and forced labor by broadening laws against slavery and exploitation, a plan that was heralded by human rights groups as a blueprint for world efforts to stop such abuse.
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AUSTRALIA: Policy Driving Indigenous From Lands: Amnesty
World  (tags: politics, Refugees&Relief, world, aborigines, australia, government, conflict, 'HUMANRIGHTS!', 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', humanrights, freedoms, society )

Cal
- 359 days ago - abc.net.au
Amnesty International has issued a scathing assessment of Australia's policies on Indigenous affairs and refugees in its latest report on human rights around the world.
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Don't Let the Tasmanian Government Make People Pay for Its Crisis
World  (tags: world, news, politics, Tasmania, Australia, society, 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Cal
- 390 days ago - greenleft.org.au
People are suffering in Tasmania now. Delaying health care by cutting services and increasing waiting lists only increases the suffering and the long-term costs.
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