About me
I am the Government Relations Manager at Amnesty International UK, where I lobby the UK Government and Parliament on human rights issues.
I was last at Labour conference in 2009 – then I was in Brighton working for a Government Minister who was being lobbied by business, NGOs and individuals alike. Seven years on and I was back! Location: Liverpool. Purpose: to lobby for...
About me
I’m Jerry Allen, a Country Coordinator in the UK South Asia team. I have lived and worked in eastern Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tajikistan and Bangladesh and travelled extensively in India. I consider myself an ’accidental activist’, as I found myself in areas where human rights atrocities are occurring with very little outside awareness. It made me realise that these issues are ubiquitous.
I am particularly interested in Bangladesh and in the issues of the Indigenous people of South Asia (land-grabbing, violence against women, accessibility to education and health, the need to preserve languages and culture, etc.).
One of the few pictures of Kalpana Chakma It has been 20 years since Kalpana Chakma was kidnapped by the state – taken from her home in Rangamati in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts by a group of plain-clothed security personnel...
Three years ago, Rania Al-Abbassi, her husband Abdulrahman Yasin and their six children Dima, Entisar, Najah, Alaa, Ahmad and Layan were arrested by the Syrian military intelligence authorities. As they took the family from their house...
A staggering 30,000 people ‘ disappeared ’ in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) during the 1992-95 armed conflict. More than 21 years later, 8000 people are still missing. I struggle to comprehend these numbers let alone the hundreds of...
About me
Felix Jakens manages the Individual at Risk team.
This is no April Fools, we promise. Today, Htin Kyaw takes his seat as the first democratically elected president of Burma for over 50 years. His party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), won a majority of seats in free elections...