Blogs

The UN has found ‘grave and systematic’ violations of disabled people’s human rights here in the UK. Globally, over 1 billion people are disabled and governments across the world marginalize us far too often.

Our Disabled People’s Human Rights Network brings together activists from all over the UK to claim our rights and fight for disabled people everywhere.

Human rights from a Northern Ireland perspective, from the Amnesty NI team.

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).