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“I will continue to fight until all of us are safe and free.” - Abdelaziz MuhamatAustralia can refuse providing settlement to any asylum seeker who comes to Australia by boat without a visa and instead send them to Papua New Guinea for settlement there, if they are found to be legitimate refugees.
In accepting the award on behalf of those he left behind on Manus Island, he said winning it is a chance to highlight the suffering of refugees everywhere. Some of them, including children, committed suicide. He spent four years in the Australian detention centre. We are all committed to using our voices, our organisations, and our networks to ensure human rights abuses are brought to light.As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads, we the undersigned, winners of the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, are calling for the release of all imprisoned human rights defenders around the world, who are at tremendous risk due to the virus.
Since then, he never stopped raising his voice for those who have been stripped of their most basic rights together with him. Martin Ennals (27 July 1927 – 5 October 1991) was a British human rights activist.Ennals served as the Secretary-General of Amnesty International from 1968 to 1980.
More than five years on, he is still stranded on the island, like hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers, and subject to deprivation, harassment, humiliation and violence.Amnesty International reported in November 2018 that over the past year, the Australian government has halved the number of mental health staff available to the refugees and people seeking asylum it sends to the island.
It also brings international attention to the dangers and ill-treatment faced by refugees all over the world, including in countries that claim they uphold the Refugee Convention,” Abdelaziz Muhamat declared.The Martin Ennals Award for human rights defenders honours individuals who have shown outstanding commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights, despite the risks involved. The 2019 MEA Laureate: Abdul Aziz Muhamat . Abdelaziz Muhamat was selected by a jury of the world’s leading human rights organisations and was honoured during a ceremony in Geneva on Wednesday. “Men are dying, notably for lack of appropriate medical care. 21 1211 Geneva 8
“I will continue to fight until all of us are safe and free.”“This young man was only 20 when he first arrived on Manus island.
February 14, 2019 . It has also terminated torture and trauma counselling services. Opposing this cruel system helps preserve my self-esteem and my human dignity,” Muhamat explained. The Martin Ennals Award was created in 1992 as a partnership between ten of the world’s leading human rights NGOs, with the objective of recognizing exceptional human rights defenders at risk. Finalists and the laureate are selected by a Jury of 10 of the world’s leading human rights NGOs. In October 2013, he was forcibly transferred to the island of Manus (Papua New Guinea), as part of Australia’s “offshore” refugee policy, when the boat he was on was intercepted by the authorities. Now is the time to remedy the unjust detention of these individuals. We add our voices to the calls of international leaders, of hundreds of civil society organizations and thousands of mobilized citizens, to grant clemency towards vulnerable prisoners during this health crisis, including our fellow award-winners who are imprisoned for their defense of human rights in four countries:We therefore call on your government to free our fellow Martin Ennals Award winners immediately, as well as all human rights defenders in detainment, so that their physical integrity is ensured, and they can receive appropriate medical and psychological support.Despite the tragedy of lives lost and significant economic damage, we believe this crisis will also present opportunities for a better world. The policy is named the 'Regional Resettlement Arrangement'. 2019 MEA Award Ceremony Portraits & Speeches . The award honours individuals who have shown outstanding commitment to the promotion and protection of human rights, often working under threat of imprisonment, torture or worse. The Martin Ennals Award is an annual prize for human rights defenders. October 2, 2012 .
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