Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is a global human rights organisation.
Watch the new video from Amnesty International UK, making a powerful point about how helping people in distress is something to be welcomed not criminalised. … Read the full post »
Watch the new video from Amnesty International UK, explaining the benefits of the Human Rights Act. … Read the full post »
‘You want me to explain what a letter is?!’ Jeremy Paxman helps to explain our annual letter writing campaign, Write For Rights. … Read the full post »
Take action now to demand that the UK government step in and bring Northern Ireland’s abusive abortion ban into the 21st century. … Read the full post »
Celia Peachey’s mum Maria was murdered by her violent ex-partner, despite repeatedly asking the police for help. Celia used the Human Rights Act to hold the police account for their failings. … Read the full post »
Amnesty International, reporting on Castro’s Cuba for 1998 found frequent reports of ill-treatment, in some cases amounting to torture, resulting in at least one death. … Read the full post »
On Good Friday in 1998, something amazing happened. An agreement was signed that finally brought peace to Northern Ireland after 30 years of bitter conflict. The Human Rights Act is at the core of that deal – it helped to build trust, integrity and reconciliation after three decades of bloodshed. Eighteen years on, the UK government is proposing to scrap the Act and risk destabilising peace. … Read the full post »
A powerful original song about the refugees crisis, created by Amnesty International’s youth group, Lucy Rose, Rae Morris, Jack Steadman from Bombay Bicycle Club, former Razorlight member Björn Ågren and Benjamin Francis Leftwich, at a songwriting workshop. … Read the full post »
Studies suggest it takes four minutes of direct eye contact for strangers to fall in love. So we decided to conduct a simple experiment: refugees and Europeans sat across from each other and looked each other in the eyes. … Read the full post »
There has been a violation of a fundamental principle of the rule of law – that communications between a lawyer and their client must be confidential. … Read the full post »