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I am the Programme Director for Women's Human Rights at Amnesty UK, and Chair of the Gender and Development Network.
The best advice I was ever given was to find the thing which makes me most angry, then work to end it. Violence against women in its myriad forms and the absence of rights for so many women around the world is what makes me angry - I've spent the last fifteen years doing what I can to change this
Today is International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women and I am angry. Why? It feels as if we have spent the last fifty years – and beyond – fighting Hydra – the many-headed serpent. Each time its opponents cut off a head...
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...
About me
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...