The other day a volunteer in the Amnesty media office where I work said “there’s always violence” in Egypt when they have elections. She was in the country for the 2005 elections, she said, and “We didn’t go out of the house. It was...

On 6 November 2010 International Coalition Against Violence in Iran (ICAVI) held its first conference "A Non-Violent Approach to the Growing Violence in Iran at SOAS. Women Action Network of Amnesty kindly contributed to the travel...

In a Salford theatre a play about slavery is showing. Mende Nazer was a child in Sudan sold into slavery. Seven years later she was passed to a diplomat's family in London and then she escaped and sought asylum. She has advised on...

It’s heartening to see the news agenda give space to the issue of violence against women but it’s just a shame that it has to take an International Day for that to happen. As well as the Government’s announcement to allocate more than...

Two weeks ago, we appealed to you to buy radios to help remote communities across Burma access information outside of state control. Incredibly, within a week you had helped to pay for the distribution of 2,200 radios. Our friends at...