Help us change the law for refugees
Write to your MP to say you would like to see the UK government change restrictive rules that keep refugee families apart
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Urgent Action: Two singer-songwriter activists criminally detained in China
Activists Xu Lin and Liu Sifang have been criminally detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
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Urgent Action: Mental competence in doubt as execution set in USA
Jack Greene, aged 62, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 9 November.
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Urgent Action update: Russian activist found guilty of 'homosexual propoganda'
On 18 October, a magistrate in Samara, Russia found Evdokia Romanova guilty of spreading ‘homosexual propaganda’.
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New - Student Fundraising Guide - Pub Quiz
A fundraising guide to help students run a successful pub quiz
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Urgent Action: Human rights lawyer, activists arbitrarily detained in Tanzania
Thirteen health and human rights activists, including two South Africans and one Ugandan, have been detained.
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Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defenders in Israel/OPT
Farid al-Atrash and Issa Amro are facing their next two court hearings on 29 October and 5 November.
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Urgent Action: Iranian prisoner of conscience critically ill
Mohammad Nazari, who has been unjustly languishing in prison for over two decades, is critically ill.