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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.
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...
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...
This blog is by Noa Kleinman who has recently retired as North America Country Coordinator, after 20 years. Indigenous women and girls in Canada are being murdered and disappeared at such a high rate that it amounts to a national human...
About me
I'm Amnesty's Communities Editor - looking after the blogs on the Amnesty site, and everything social media.
Want to get more updates from us? You'll find Amnesty on Twitter as @amnestyUK, and on Facebook at facebook.com/amnestyuk. And I'm @emersonp
So we’re really here. After years of misrepresentation , demonisation and untruths , has the Human Rights Act had its day? Will the government turn its back on the sense of fairness we’ve aspired to since Magna Carta to say that some...
About me
My name is Billy Briggs and I'm a freelance journalist in Scotland who writes about human rights issues. My reports have been published by - among others - The Guardian, Sunday Mail, Scotland On Sunday, The Herald, Sunday Herald, The Observer, New Statesman, Al Jazeera and The Times.
My email is - scotsjournalist@gmail.com
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I interviewed Lydia Cacho last week for the Sunday Mail newspaper in Scotland. Below is a link to my article, published yesterday. Cacho - a prominent investigative reporter and human rights campaigner from Mexico - was in the UK as...