Boiling hot days seem to be mandatory for the annual outdoor Sutton High School for Girls Human Rights Fair ( Suttonbury 2024 ). Mark and Aya from Sutton Amnesty were ideally positioned this year - partly in the shade and right next to...

On a wet Tuesday evening, several members from our Sutton group joined the Beckenham , Penge & West Wickham Amnesty group for a campaigning event in West Penge. We decorated several cut-out keys, which will be sent with a letter to the...

Sutton group member Barbara attended "An Evening With Refugee Tales " on 8 July at Holy Trinity Church, Wallington and heard personal stories from two refugees about their challenges in trying to settle in Britain. They told of their...

Our Chair attended this year’s AIUK AGM in Sheffield, on behalf of the Sutton Group (and as the newly appointed London Region Activism Representative). The AGM was a one-day event, which was originally scheduled to last for two days...

Nabila Hanson (Amnesty UK regional coordinator for China and East Asia and Country coordinator for China and Taiwan) and Howard Zhang (seasoned China watcher with long spells at both the BBC World Service and as BBC News Chinese Editor...

Our online meeting heard an excellent presentation on Guatemala from Pauline Uyterwijk-Crosfield, Amnesty UK country coordinator for Guatemala and Nicaragua. Background: Guatemala has a population of about 17.25 million of whom 41% are...

We were very fortunate to receive a talk from Makomborero Haruzivishe ('Mako'). Mako had been a human rights and democracy campaigner in Zimbabwe since 2011 but came to the UK in 2021. He rose to prominence as Secretary General of...

Our December meeting focused on our participation in Amnesty International's 2023 Write for Rights Campaign. In aggregate we wrote almost 70 cards to the individuals covered. Write for Rights also looks back to those people included in...

Our January 2024 meeting kicked off with guest speaker Oliver Feeley-Sprague. Oliver is Amnesty International UK's Programme Director for its work on arms controls and policing. His talk covered a number of areas including Arms Control...