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Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The government has recently tabled the Economic Activity of Public Bodies (Overseas Matters) Bill. As noted in this Guardian editorial , the...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Our action this week comes from Freedom from Torture . The government plan to house refugees on a barge 'the Bibby Stockholm' - effectively a...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference The week of 19 th -25 th June is Refugee Week. As well as our own Refugee Week work (see first item below) we have been informed of various events in...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference Guillermo Zarraga, a 59-year old Venezuelan engineer and former oil industry unionist, was arbitrarily detained in November 2020 at his home by...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Indigenous Peoples’ rights defenders Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, from the Cordillera region in northern Philippines, have been missing since 28 April 2023, in a...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News You will remember that last year mass protests broke out in Sri Lanka as the country plunged into the worst economic crisis in post-independence history. Shortages of essential items, including...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News This week we have a solidarity action to be done on Wednesday 24 th May, when it is the birthday of Eren Keskin, a prominent human rights lawyer in Türkiye who has been the focus of several...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference On 30 March, the Court of Appeal of Mukaza in Bujumbura, Burundi heard the case of Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye. She had appealed the...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News The Illegal Migration bill is back in parliament next Wednesday, when it will start its journey through the House of Lords, having been rushed through the Commons with little time for proper...

Manchester Amnesty Weekly Action and News Please do this action and make a difference During the legislative scrutiny for the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill 2022, parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR)...