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Mar 10 2025 12:43PM
Shattering Silence: The Urgent Call to Recognise Gender Apartheid and Empower Afghan Women and Girls

Blog by Nigina Istanakzai-Zarifi The voices of Afghan women and girls have long been silenced under the oppressive rule of the Taliban. Their rights to education, employment, and basic freedoms have been systematically stripped away...

Mar 7 2025 11:17AM
Human Rights in Schools by Kim Hurd

First published in Human Rights Are The Answer blog I am a teacher with 15 years’ experience, working in schools in Reading, Leicester, and London. Almost a decade ago, I joined Amnesty International’s Teacher Advisory Group to support...

Mar 1 2025 4:29PM
Message to President Trump: Hands Off Gaza!

Text of speech by Patrick Corrigan to the 'Hands Off Gaza' rally outside the US Consulate General in Belfast, 1 March 2025

Feb 26 2025 9:56AM
On the Seductions of Technology and the Racialised Harms of the Criminal Legal System of England and Wales

Written by Dr Patrick Williams . The views expressed in this essay are the author’s own and not necessarily those of Amnesty International UK. On 15 September 2017, 11 young people from the central area of Greater Manchester, UK were...

Feb 24 2025 4:05PM
A New Tactic of State Violence

Written by Leah Cowan. The views expressed in this essay are the author’s own and not necessarily those of Amnesty International UK. Policing exacerbates a crisis of harm There is a crisis of harm in society. We do not have an...