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A review of this year's Action For Change event — a day of skill sharing and training for student activsts at AIUK HQ.

A demonstration to call for immediate and unconditional release of the Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and all other prisoners of conscience currently held in China; a solidarity action with the struggle for universal suffrage in Hong Kong.

Every year hundreds of thousands of people in the United Kingdom are attacked and harassed – physically or verbally – because they are perceived as ‘different’. Why? Perhaps it’s because of their religion or their sexuality, or it’s...

So, what is this Queen’s Speech and why does it matter? Well for some it is the highlight of the political calendar…for the pomp and ceremony alone it is worth a look. The Queen (usually) gets all dressed up in her finery, jokes are...

Written by Bali Rai, author and Amnesty CILIP Honour judge Judging this year’s Amnesty Honour Award was far from simple. A wonderful shortlist of novels, each touching on some aspect of human rights, made things very difficult. And for...