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A Scottish angle on human rights and the human rights angle on Scotland.
This blog originally featured in the Amnesty Scotland newsletter for activists. On 7 June, two members of the Scotland team (Neil and Marie) made their way to Perth to attend the first large-scale meeting of Scotland’s local activist...
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Human rights from a Northern Ireland perspective, from the Amnesty NI team.
Speech by Patrick Corrigan of Amnesty International, at a protest in Belfast against the genocide in Gaza being perpetrated by Israel. The protest, outside Barclays Bank, was organised by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity, 31 May 2025.
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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).
A candlelight vigil will be held opposite the PRC Embassy in London to mark the 36th anniversary of the 1989 pro-democracy movement and commemorate victims of the Tiananmen Massacre. Time: Wednesday 4 June 2025, 8-10pm Venue: Chinese...
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Amnesty Feminists Network exists to campaign for a world where nobody suffers discrimination, exclusion or violence because of their sex or gender identity.
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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!