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The Urgent Action Network is made up of 150,000 people around the world who are outraged by injustice and prepared to act swiftly at critical moments to stop it.

Urgent action is based on a simple idea: when someone is in immediate danger of serious abuse, the government responsible for perpetrating or failing to prevent that abuse will receive thousands of faxes, telegrams, emails and air-letters from every part of the globe. Those messages tell the authorities that the world is watching, and create pressure to stop the abuse.



We'll update you on Urgent Action cases, good news stories and other interesting facts and information we hear about from our campaigners.  We hope it will persaude you to join the Urgent Action Network!

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Mar 4 2020 11:52AM
How much would you risk for basic women’s rights?

Here in the UK and in my home country, USA, women are often put in positions in which our physical safety and bodily autonomy are at risk, but at the same time, we haven’t really had to fight for our rights in the way many other women...

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Blogs from Amnesty UK's Anti death penalty project.

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Jan 31 2020 3:31PM
Annual Report 2019

How does that happen? How does another year slip by without us noticing? It seems like only a few weeks ago that we were contemplating our 2019 programme and now, suddenly, it has flown by and we are thinking forward to 2020. In...

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The death penalty is the ultimate in cruel and inhumane treatment. It reduces the state to the role of killer, and we believe it should never be used - no ifs, no buts.

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Oct 10 2019 2:51PM
Ndume Olatushani: 20 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit

Ndume Olatushani spent 28 years in a Tennessee prison - 20 years on death row - for a crime that he did not commit: the 1983 murder of Joe Belenchia. Twenty years of legal battles uncovered that evidence against him had been fabricated...

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#WellLit is a space for children and young people to review new books through a human rights lens. It platforms their voices and opinions to explore connections between literature and human rights.

Here you can find out what they really think about books that were written for them.

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Amnesty International is a movement of more than three million people across the globe. This blog highlights some of their stories as they fight injustice.

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Sep 12 2018 3:54PM
Key facts about gun violence

Gun violence is a global human rights issue. Governments have a legal obligation to protect the right to life, and therefore a responsibility to protect people from firearm violence. We have to remind them of this by demanding reform.