Campaigns Blog

The UK’s Child Poverty Strategy: it is progress to be welcomed but it falls short, and will sadly be leaving millions of children behind.

When the 2024 general election was on the horizon, Amnesty International dug into every party manifesto to see if anyone was ready to make homelessness history. The verdict? We were left largely disappointed...

When the Chancellor stands up to announce the Budget with their red box, most of us hear headlines about taxes, spending cuts, or economic forecasts. But behind those numbers are decisions that shape our daily lives.

Oil exploitation by Shell in the Niger Delta has devastated Ogoniland, destroying livelihoods and polluting land and water. Yet their communities continue to fight for justice to people in the region.

The shrinking of civic space is not an abstract concern, but an existential threat to the future of democracy, prosperity and international stability.

The UK’s double standards at home and abroad are affecting its standing in the world. We need a consistent approach to human rights – and this should be based on international law.

This is government openly ignorant, cruel and happy to seemingly spread a message to the population that disability is nothing more than a drain on the public purse.

Attempts to Sideline the Voices of Disabled People reflect the Conscious Cruelty and indignity baked in to our social security system.

Everyone in the Nigerian community of Kegbara (K) Dere is affected by pollution caused by oil spills from decades ago. None more so than its youngest and most vulnerable members. Letor Baatee is a 36-year-old community midwife, who has...

by Jen Clark, Economic Social and Cultural Rights Lead at Amnesty UK Right now, people in the UK face rising poverty, homelessness, food insecurity, and long NHS wait times . This month, I represented Amnesty UK to highlight these very...

Interview by Kitty Melrose In 1990, the people of Nigeria’s Niger Delta started campaigning against Shell’s chronic pollution of their homeland. Thirty-five years on, they are still fighting for compensation and the remediation and...

A Survivor of Assad's Dungeons Reflects on the Fall of the Regime By Mansour Omari The monumental, exhilarating, dream-like events in Syria surprised many foreign officials and journalists. Their instant reactions focused on how this...

Life in War - The Silent Genocide By Areej Alghazzawi What can I say about my exceptional friend Kawthar Afana? I met her at the central UN warehouses seven months ago in Rafah - Tal Al-Sultan. She's so kind and beautiful, with hazel...

The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all - no matter who we are. Read more on why we must stand up for the ECHR and keep our rights protected.

The Awethu School of Organising

The UK asylum system is in desperate need of reform. We’ve outlined 5 key proposals that can help fix the broken system and ensure that every asylum claim is treated with respect.

Sonali Bhattacharyya’s play Liberation Squares examines the dystopian effect of Prevent, the UK government’s strategy ‘to stop people becoming terrorists’, which disproportionately targets Muslims.

Written by Jen Clark, Economic Social and Cultural Rights Lead at Amnesty UK "Homelessness is a profound assault on dignity, social inclusion and the right to life.” Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing ( A/HRC/43/43...

Khalida Popal started a movement for women’s rights through football in Afghanistan. After the Taliban returned to Kabul in 2021, she helped evacuate 500 players and their families. In Europe, she knows that racist anti-immigrant rheto