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Sep 12 2019 4:40PM
On Friday 20 September, millions of people will be out on the streets all around the world to demand action on climate change from their leaders. Here’s everything you need to know about the climate strikes.
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Sep 10 2019 4:36PM
Blog by Holly Shorey, Vice-Chair of the Amnesty UK Children's Human Rights Network On Friday 6th September, we handed in our “Make Rights Real” petition to the UK Government, Department for Education. Well over 7000 of you took action...
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I am a Priority Campaign Manager for Amnesty UK currently running our My Body My Rights campaign on sexual and reproductive rights. Also working on our soon to be launched campaign on Human Rights in the UK!
I've worked at Amnesty for nearly 10 years and have campaigned on poverty and human rights, maternal health, corporate accountability, forced evictions and housing rights. I have also worked in Amnesty's Scotland office where I did a lot of work on torture and rendition and trafficking.
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Aug 28 2019 3:54PM
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child ( UNCRC ) sets out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of children (defined as under 18 year olds) and is a particularly important piece of international l...
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Aug 27 2019 3:21PM
Since 1997, Amnesty International in Scotland has shared the voices of writers whose human rights have been compromised - because they have been imprisoned, exiled or executed for exercising their freedom of expression; because they fa...
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Jul 25 2019 4:19PM
The inside story of how Cambridge Analytica misused Facebook data to manipulate voters in the US election is told in “The Great Hack” – a new Netflix documentary out today.