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A Scottish angle on human rights and the human rights angle on Scotland.

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Nov 21 2023 9:21AM
Briefing - Crisis in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Today (Tuesday) MSPs at Holyrood will debate the crisis in Israel and the Occupied Palestinain Territories. We have published the following brieifng reiterating our calls for an immediate ceasefire by all parties to prevent further...

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Amnesty works on almost every country on the planet. Our volunteer country specialists help us keep on top of reports and research about human rights abuses, and this is their take on our work.

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Nov 17 2023 3:44PM
The AI Germany report on the Rohingya

The following is an excerpt from a report by Bernhard Hertlein of Amnesty International Germany. World's largest refugee camp in Kutupalong Bangladesh alone took in nearly one million Rohingya in August 2017 and the months that...

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Welcome to our priority campaigns blog, with the latest news and more indepth analysis of our bigger campaigns.

Our priorities change as human rights changes around the world, and right now we're focusing on our Stop Torture, My Body, My Rights, and Save the Human Rights Act campaigns. But you'll also find comments and updates on our work on Syria, LGBTI rights and human rights abuses by corporate companies.

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Nov 10 2023 9:00AM
There’s no better time for a ceasefire protest than Armistice Day

Blog written by Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s Chief Executive: In the past week, the right to peaceful protest has made front-page news. But in reality, the attack on the right to protest has been ongoing for years...

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Shao Jiang, a former prisoner of conscience for his active role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement, is a committed activist-scholar, who lives and works in exile in London. The academic interests focus on politics and media, social movement, democratisation, feminism, law in PRC and Hong Kong, autonomy & sovereignty & self-determination, international human rights mechanisms, comparative studies on development models and political institutions, theory and practice of Civil Society. Publications include Citizen Publications in China before the Internet (Palgrave, 2015).

 

About this blog

We're the human rights education team at Amnesty International UK.

 

We'll be blogging on how we can help you connect campaigning to the classroom, bring human rights to life, and other education news. And please ask us questions and let us know what you'd like to see more of!

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Sep 8 2023 11:23AM
Reflections on teaching Human Rights Education and the DfE guidance on ‘political impartiality in schools’.

In February 2022 the DfE released new non-statutory guidance on political impartiality in schools which made it clear that ‘teaching about political issues, the different views people have, and the ways pupils can engage in our...