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About me
I'm one of the USA country coordinators for Amnesty UK, working largely on Guantánamo campaign work. Here I'll be blogging about human rights issues in the USA, Canada and the Caribbean.
Torture has written some of the bloodiest lines of history. The heretic’s fork, the Judas cradle and other medieval devices might be museum curios now, but Amnesty has evidence of torture in 141 countries during the last five years. It...
London’s Liverpool Street station is a familiar part of my life. I pass through it almost every weekday and emerge beneath Bishopsgate’s steel and glass towers without a thought. Occasionally, I take a different route, onto Liverpool...
About me
I've been an Amnesty member for about a quarter of a century. I've been involved with the LGBTI network since it was set up in the mid 1990s.
Outside Amnesty, I work as a finance professional in the public sector, enjoy travelling (especially when I can combine it with Amnesty work), food and architecture.
I and other Amnesty activists have just come back from the Latvian capital Riga after the most exhilarating of EuroPride weekends. We can all confirm, as the slogan for EuroPride had it, "Changing history is hot". It’s a history that...
Listen to the podcast As this week has shown it is rare when ISIS aren’t dominating the headlines. Coverage of their human rights violations are all over the news and every story is shocking and brutal. We’ve seen pilots burned alive...
This blog is by Noa Kleinman who has recently retired as North America Country Coordinator, after 20 years. Indigenous women and girls in Canada are being murdered and disappeared at such a high rate that it amounts to a national human...