Guest blogger Hyemin Yoo breaks for the Borders to judge a youth protest song competition As an Amnesty International student activist, I was invited by Amnesty Borders Group to attend (and judge!) the finals of the Voices for Change...
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Amnesty UK's Syria Country Coordinator on the Middle East and Gulf team.
Twitter: @Planet_Slater
Personal blog: www.laterwithslater.com
About me
Hi, I’m Tilly Lavenás and I’m the Mexico country coordinator for Amnesty UK. I lived near the US/Mexican border for many years and I love Mexico. I was last there in 2009 when I visited an indigenous Mayan prisoner named Ricardo Ucan outside of Merida. Amnesty believed his trial had been unfair, and thankfully he was released in 2010. I’m also chair of the Lyme Regis Amnesty group; we do a lot of fundraising and campaigning.
Like many Amnesty folk, I like to travel, cycle and eat good food.
Ángel Amílcar Colón Quevedo's eight-year-old son was dying of cancer. Ángel is a black Honduran, a member of the downtrodden Garifuna community. In desperate hope of earning money for a cure for his child, Ángel tried to get to the...
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Hi, I'm Sheila. I've been an Amnesty activist since student days and am Amnesty UK's country co-ordinator for Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua. I'm also involved with my local group in Corby.
In my day job I'm a freelance translator. Hobbies include sport - I'm an avid follower of Liverpool FC - and I'm an enthusiastic musician and singer.
Aspiring writers might dream of being an award-winning journalist with access to a wealth of captivating stories on crime, corruption and political intrigue. But what’s the reality in countries where freedom of speech is under serious...