Vick Hope

Vick Hope is a British television and radio broadcaster, journalist, and author. Best known for hosting shows on BBC Radio 1, she has presented many TV programs including Vick Hope’s Breakfast Show on ITV1, Countdown, Pointless, The Paralympic Games, The One Show and many more, she also hosts the Women’s Prize for Fiction podcast, Bookshelfie. 
 
Vick has been an ambassador for Amnesty UK since the age of 16 and officially became an ambassador in 2020. She has shown support for women's rights by being involved in several initiatives that promote gender equality. Vick has used her platform to advocate for issues such as women's empowerment, equal pay, and combating gender-based violence. Her work often highlights the importance of uplifting women, breaking down stereotypes, and encouraging social change. 
 
In addition to her advocacy, Vick is known for her positive influence on the next generation, both through her grassroots charity and community work with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, and through her presence on radio and TV, where she encourages conversations about equality, accessibility, and mental health, all of which are essential aspects of women's rights.

On speaking about joining Amnesty, Vick says:

“Amnesty International has been an important part of my life for over a decade. I think I was about 16, at school, and remember studying prisoners of conscience in RS, and this intense feeling of injustice rose up within me the more and more I learned about those who were being unfairly incarcerated, tortured and killed for their beliefs. I asked my teacher about any ways we could help, and she introduced me to Amnesty.

They had a campaign to put pressure on corrupt regimes, which I worked on throughout the rest of my time as a student, writing letters to governments and authorities urging them to reverse their decisions, publicising their actions via media outlets to highlight to the world the human rights abuses at play and encourage international pressure, as well as sending letters of solidarity to the prisoners.

I'm proud to have worked with Amnesty International ever since, from an ethical fashion campaign while at uni to investigating the improper use of tasers by the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Police in Argentina, as well as hosting their stage at the Women's March in London, standing together for women's and LGBTQ rights, racial equality, workers' rights,​ ​immigration reform and reproductive rights for women around the world.

And now more than ever, looking out for the safety and human rights of the most vulnerable is so important, at a time when we're being advised to stay at home, it is so frightening and dangerous for those for whom home is not a safe space: victims of domestic abuse, the homeless, destitute, refugees and asylum seekers without residence or support. For International Women's Day 2025, Vick partnered with Amnesty UK and three artists on the Threads of Resistance campaign. 

I believe that every single person should be able to enjoy all the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Sometimes we can feel so powerless about what we can do in the face of the atrocities and injustices of our world, but Amnesty International have shown me that through diligent research, policy, publicity and pressure, prisoners of conscience have been released, threats have been averted and human lives have been saved”.

About Amnesty Ambassadors

Amnesty Ambassadors are made up of profile individuals from a broad range of disciplines. Using their profile and networks our Ambassador’s allow us to educate, amplify and inspire more and more people to join the fight for human rights.