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Aug 2 2017 11:38AM
London Memorial for Liu Xiaobo three weeks after his passing

August 2 will be the 21st day since the passing of Liu Xiaobo, the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to die in state custody since Nazi Germany. Liu Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison for co-drafting and promoting Charter 08, a...

Aug 1 2017 5:55PM
Urgent: Stop the executions about to happen in the Maldives

After more than 60 years, the Maldives are set to resume use of the death penalty by executing three men in the next few days. The Maldives' Minister of Home Affairs has announced that his country are planning to carry out their first...

Aug 1 2017 3:34PM
Amnesty International and Glasgow FrontRunners July 2017

The Glasgow FrontRunners (LGBT+ inclusive) are supporting Amnesty International at their OUTrun event on 19th August. The OUTrun is a five-mile course, which attracts runners of all abilities from across the UK and offers participants...

Jul 27 2017 2:57PM
LGBTI rights are a work in progress

It's fifty years since the UK legislated for a partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. We’ve come a long way since yet we are still a long way off a truly equal society for LGBTI+ people both here in the UK and globally.

Jul 11 2017 7:21AM
Call on China to release Liu Xiaobo for cancer treatment abroad

Please write to your MP and Prime Minister Theresa May, demanding that the Prime Minister and the Parliament of the UK urge China to release immediately and unconditionally the Chinese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, and allow...