Events

Bidisha: Beyond the Wall

Venue: Cross Street Chapel, Cross Street, Manchester M2 1NL
Date:Sat 19 Oct 2013

The Manchester branch of Amnesty International are proud to present an afternoon with social justice writer, critic and broadcaster, Bidisha.

Europe: A peaceful or a warlike continent?

Venue: Priory Street Centre, York YO1 6ET
Date:Sat 05 Oct 2013

York conference focusing on Europe's human rights record, from being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, to soliciting detention and rendition programmes to support the 'War on Terror'.

Amnesty Mayfair & Soho Group - Soul Night

Venue: 443 Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, London SW9 8LN
Date:Fri 22 Nov 2013

Amnesty Mayfair and Soho Group are holding a Soul Night on Friday 22 November at Market House in Brixton.

The Burma Play - A Comedy of Terror

Venue: The Marine Theatre, Church Street, Lyme Regis, Dorset, DT7 3QA
Date:Fri 18 Oct 2013

The Lyme Regis Group is promoting this performance of a play which sprints through the long years of empire and dictatorship towards the current possibility of a new order.

Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer (film screening and Q&A)

Russian punk band Pussy Riot, photographed in January 2012 © Игорь Мухин

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17 - 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Thu 03 Oct 2013

Amnesty's Women's Action Network is hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary Pussy Riot-a Punk Prayer.

Our School (film screening and Q&A)

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17 - 25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Wed 25 Sep 2013

Three Roma children in a small Transylvanian town are among the pioneer participants in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools.

Monashay + Director Q&A

A still from Monashay

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Wed 09 Oct 2013

Please join Amnesty's Hampstead and Hackney and Islington Group for this premire of a new documentary on the lives of Roma in Romania, followed by a Q&A with the director.

Love, Hate and Human Rights

Venue: Barons Court Theatre, 28a Comeragh Road, London, W14 9HR
From: Tue 17 Sep 2013
To: Sun 22 Sep 2013

Kibo Productions brings together some of Londons emerging playwrights, directors, and actors to create plays in response to putins anti-gay law.

NO starring Gael Garca Bernal - Free screening

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Mon 16 Sep 2013

We are holding a special free screening of Oscar-nominated Chilean film No on Monday 16th September to mark 40 years since Pinochets coup and 25 years since the return of democracy to Chile.

We need to talk about torture

Venue: Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
Date:Fri 11 Oct 2013

The Practice of Prevention: a talk with Professor Malcolm Evans, OBE, the current Chair of the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture and a member of the FCO's Human Rights Advisory Group.

Amnesty International North West Conference 2013

Venue: St Peters House, Precinct Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9GH
Date:Sat 16 Nov 2013

The Amnesty International North West regional conference will take place on Saturday 16 November in Manchester. The conference is open to delegates from all Amnesty groups in the region.

The face of injustice: Peter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs on death row

Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle

Venue: South Transept, Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire
Date:Thu 10 Oct 2013

A moving lecture delivered by two exonerees from death row who met after being released and now campaign for an end to the cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.

Book launch - Bergen-Belsen 1945: A medical student's journal

A section of the cover for Michael Hargrave's Bergen-Belsen 1945: A medical student's journal

Venue: Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA
Date:Wed 06 Nov 2013

Book launch of a diary written by a young medical volunteer in Belsen concentration camp at the end of the war. A panel discussion will look at the camp's effect on the growth of the human rights movement, as well as medical ethics and the human right to health.

Hamed Qawesmeh: Defending human rights in Hebron

Venue: St Nicholas Church Hall, Bury Street, Guilford
Date:Sat 21 Sep 2013

Join the Guilford group for this fascinating and insightful talk from Hamed Qawesmeh, who works for the United Nations documenting human rights violations in the southern West Bank

A Secret History of Torture - Amnesty International Annual Lecture

Ian-Cobain70

Venue: The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast
Date:Mon 21 Oct 2013

Guardian journalist Ian Cobain lays bare Britains secret use of torture from the Second World War, via Kenya and Northern Ireland, to the War on Terror.

An Evening without Filep Karma

Venue: RISC, 3539 London Street, RG1 4PS
Date:Fri 18 Oct 2013

Amnesty International Reading Group hosts: An Evening without Filep Karma
with speakers & West Papuan food & music.

An evening with Kate Allen

Venue: Church House, Melbourne, DE73 8JH
Date:Thu 26 Sep 2013

Hear Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK, talk about some of Amnestys achievements and where were going next.

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