Campaigns Blog

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

Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee & Migrant Rights Programme Director, explores the theme of this year’s Refugee Week: Home.

By Areej AlGhazzawi Where are we going? Our future is unknown. We struggle from day to day under Israel's vicious assault on our ability to live. Before October 7, I could smile despite the endless obstacles imposed on our blockaded...

By Aya Al-Ghazzawi I believe that notorious colonialist Winston Churchill said that British people are the only people who like to be told how bad things are. Well, to put it mildly, things are bad in Gaza—how does that make you feel...

Anoosheh Ashoori returned home to his family 2 years ago, on the 16th March 2022, after being unjustly imprisoned in Evin Prison, Iran. This is why he's still fighting to free all unjustly imprisoned British nationals abroad.

Our Before Our Eyes short film was based on the real life story of people who experience homelessness and struggle to survive in temporary accommodation. This blog tells the real story of 'Charlotte', our consultant for the project.

Trigger warning: this blog contains distressing content In every one of Israel's wars of aggression, I've felt terrorised, increasingly anxious and extremely uncertain about anything. I've lived through too many wars but somehow...