Youth Fundraising Update: September 2016
A fundraising update for Amnesty youth groups and schools. Has info. on some of the best fundraising events of the 2015-16 academic year.
Resource pack: Lift Off (Irish)
Ten lessons in Irish to build knowledge of human rights issues, drawing on skills and attitudes developed by The Right Start.
Resource pack: Me, You, Everyone (Irish)
Ten lessons in Irish focusing on knowledge of human rights issues, developing the skills and attitudes acquired from previous resources.
Urgent Action update: Beaten and still detained after bail was paid in Egypt
One week since Islam Khalil’s bail of 50,000 Egyptian pounds (US$5,510) was paid, the 27-year-old survivor of enforced disappearance and torture has yet to be released.
Urgent Action good news: Defamation investigation suspended in Indonesia
Indonesian police suspended their investigation into a defamation complaint against human rights activist Haris Azhar.
Urgent Action: 14-Year-Old Egyptian boy tortured to confess
Egypt’s National Security Agency subjected 14-year-old Aser Mohamed to enforced disappearance for 34 days. The boy claims that he was tortured and ill-treated to confess to offences he did not commit.
Urgent Action: Activists summoned by police risk imprionment in Thailand
Police have summoned six individuals, including two staff of a human rights organization, in relation to a criminal investigation into a “Speak for Freedom” event held on 31 July. All six are expected to report to the police station on 31 August.
Urgent Action good news: Disappeared man freed from secret detention in Ukraine
Dmytro Koroliov was released on 2 August after spending one year in secret detention in the Security Service of Ukraine compound in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine.
Urgent Action: Five men in secret detention in Ukraine
Authorities must urgently release five men believed to be in secret detention in the Security Service’s compound in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine.