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About me

I'm the Individuals at Risk Manager and alongside Amy S and Sara (blogging soon!), I look after our case work on individuals and communities at risk Urgent Action Network and will blogging on the great work you're doing to help us protect people whose human rights are at risk.

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Aug 12 2015 12:59PM
Raif Badawi, Saudi Arabia's political football

Football is, for some, an obsession. In the UK, it’s a sport that gets lots of people’s emotions going and in the office, now that the football season has begun, conversations about tactics and scorelines will start up once again too...

About me

I'm one of the USA country coordinators for Amnesty UK, working largely on Guantánamo campaign work. Here I'll be blogging about human rights issues in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean.

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Aug 2 2015 8:32PM
A solitary hope?

Torture has written some of the bloodiest lines of history. The heretic’s fork, the Judas cradle and other medieval devices might be museum curios now, but Amnesty has evidence of torture in 141 countries during the last five years. It...

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Jul 3 2015 4:51PM
Kindertransport and Sir Nicholas Winton

London’s Liverpool Street station is a familiar part of my life. I pass through it almost every weekday and emerge beneath Bishopsgate’s steel and glass towers without a thought. Occasionally, I take a different route, onto Liverpool...

About me

I've been an Amnesty member for about a quarter of a century. I've been involved with the LGBTI network since it was set up in the mid 1990s.

Outside Amnesty, I work as a finance professional in the public sector, enjoy travelling (especially when I can combine it with Amnesty work), food and architecture.

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Jun 25 2015 5:49PM
Progress to take Pride in

I and other Amnesty activists have just come back from the Latvian capital Riga after the most exhilarating of EuroPride weekends. We can all confirm, as the slogan for EuroPride had it, "Changing history is hot". It’s a history that...

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Jun 11 2015 3:40PM
Are the press working for ISIS?

Listen to the podcast As this week has shown it is rare when ISIS aren’t dominating the headlines. Coverage of their human rights violations are all over the news and every story is shocking and brutal. We’ve seen pilots burned alive...