Moving an individual's super out of funds that invest in fossil fuels is a popular climate action in Australia, but what's ...

Every four and a half years, the UN Human Rights Council reviews the human rights records of all member states. Recently, ...

Approximately 30,000 firearms were turned in to authorities during Australia’s second national firearm amnesty program, The Guardian reported.

In Australia, its most recent national firearms amnesty saw 50,000 guns removed With a nationwide firearms ban in place for 20 years, Australia is still rounding up guns in communities.

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 ...

More than 50,000 illegal firearms were handed over in Australia during a three-month amnesty period that ended on Saturday, one day before the Las Vegas shooting where 59 people were killed and ...

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.

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 ...

According to Amnesty, more than 1,100 asylum seekers and refugees are currently held on Nauru, a tiny island of just 10,000 people some 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) off the coast of Australia.

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.

Amnesty International believes its evidence shows that Australia organised or directed the crew of an asylum seeker boat to commit the crime of people smuggling into Indonesia.