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Dec 13 2017 11:13AM
Write for Rights with the LGBTI Network

By Daniel Theophanous We started the Write for Rights campaign over 15 years ago: a global letter-writing initiative which has now become one of world’s biggest human rights event. The campaign’s premise is that “sometimes a letter can...

Dec 12 2017 3:19PM
Author Mitch Johnson on tackling global inequality in fiction

By Mitch Johnson: an introduction to his new book ,'Kick', which has been endorsed by Amnesty International UK. 100 seconds. That’s how long it takes a top-flight footballer to earn a sweatshop worker’s monthly wage. When I first did...

Dec 11 2017 11:52AM
Final dispatch from Activists Conference

Cristine Ferguson was our furthest travelled delegate at the Activists Conference, here she shares her motivation for making the journey Living in Orkney it is a big thing travelling ‘sooth’ to an Amnesty UK AGM and conference. I have...

Dec 10 2017 8:17AM
Human Rights Day 2017:Free all prisoners of conscience held by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime

P rotesters will gather to mark International Human Rights Day 2017 at Chinese Embassy in London. Venue: opposite the Chinese Embassy, 49-59 Portland Place, London W1B 1JL Nearest tubes: Great Portland Street, Oxford Circus Date...

Dec 8 2017 2:59PM
The persecution of the Ahmadiyya community

For the 5 million Ahmadis in the world, religious persecution has been particularly severe and systematic in Pakistan, where Ahmadis have been officially declared non-Muslims.