The Forbidden Team is being shown at the Ritzy in Brixton at 7 pm on Wednesday 8 August. That date is exactly one year before the Beijing Olympics. The film is about the Tibetan national football team. We are lucky that even if it is...

The news section of this website gives details of 30 people given life sentences in Ethiopia, most if not all of them considered by Amnesty to be prisoners of conscience. Mesfin Woldemariam is one who is named and I seem to remember...

The Dalai Lama, religious and political leader of the Tibetan people, has decided against visiting Belgium for the Fifth International Conference of Tibet Support Groups, currently being held in Brussels. (At the previous four of these...

Amnesty has today issued a new report on the Chinese government's record on human rights in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics in summer 2008. The Olympic Games should be a peaceful and positive international event but the Chinese...

I would like to agree with Tony Blair when UK Prime Minister who said, "The same courage and dedication that people showed to overcome the slave trade 200 years ago should be used to tackle the many forms of modern day slavery, the...

Why not put a question about human rights on the web chat with the UK Foreign Secretary? It was to take place on 21 Feb. 2007 but had to be postponed. A new date has not yet been fixed. I have put on a question but it would be good to...

A search on the internet comes up with many film festivals around the world on the theme of human rights. I wish that most of them were not so far away from me! It is probably easier to arrange such a festival in a major capital city...

I have seen some discussion about Asian values and their relationship to human rights. The essence of the argument seems to be that in Asia the good of the group has to be given more weight and so the individual cannot be given so much...

Have you ever written to a government about human rights and received no reply? If your experience has been anything like mine you very rarely get any reply and just have to guess whether your letter or e-mail has been taken seriously...

When I go to the cinema I like to be transported to a different part of the world and to learn about what is happening. The local group of Amnesty put on the film "Shooting Dogs" about the Rwandan genocide recently but there are also...

Petitions to the UK Prime Minister takes the tradition of petitions to number 10 Downing Street and brings it up to date for the age of the internet. I recently discovered it by a link from Mark Thomas's site. There are already many...

Most of the history I was taught at school was very dull, just endless facts about kings, queens, battles and dates. (Why did we have to "do the Tudors" so many times?) Nearly all of it was about British history. I was pleased to drop...

What could be more charitable than the work of Amnesty International? I have heard that Amnesty International UK is hoping to become a charity and I welcome that but I do not know when it will be. This will give advantages such as...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was issued by the United Nations soon after the end of the Second World War. It is available on the UN website in about 365 of the world's languages. More than 50 years later it is of course...

I found the regional conference very useful to find out more about Amnesty's activities and to meet like-minded people. There were talks and discussions about current campaigns: on violence against women and on asylum seekers. Speakers...

On 28 November MPs <a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2006-11-28a.25.0" href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/whall/?id=2006-11-28a.25.0" _blank"="">debated the crisis in Darfur. The debate was in Westminster...

An Amnesty Greetings Card Campaign is for WOZA.

The Indian government has restricted the movements of an activist during the visit of President Hu and has even threatened him with deportation to Tibet if he does not obey. Here is a link to give more details from the Free Tibet...

I sent two e-mails to President Musharraf about this case and I am pleased to hear the news that he has now commuted the death sentence on humanitarian grounds. I understand that Mirza Tahir Hussain has been released and should be able...

I hope that people are having a look at my blog and I hope that it might stimulate debate. There are plenty of thorny issues on how to campaign effectively on human rights and plenty of need for debate. I don't know whether other...