Books | Amnesty International UK

Know Your Rights and Claim Them

This book celebrates the difference young activists make around the world. It gives young people practical advice on peaceful protest, navigating the law, raising awareness and campaigning. Buy now.

Reading Rebels

A book subscription for curious, kind kids aged 4-10 years old. Handpicked books, creative activities, free gifts and much more to empower and inspire.

Books to inspire activism

Get inspired with our selection of toddlers to teens books to inspire change-making.

Words that Burn

An inspiring free educational resource to explore human rights and express yourself through poetry - your voice matters and your poems can make a difference!

Book review: When Shadows Fall

This moving novel for young adults will inspire a new generation of storytellers from all different backgrounds.

Use your right to peaceful protest, creatively!

An Amnesty collaboration, two beautiful new books take us on a visual journey through 100 years of peaceful protest.

Perfect books to give

Sometimes it can be hard to choose gifts. The Amnesty team recommend books for children and adults, with human rights at their heart.

Recommended graphic novels for children and young adults

These hugely powerful books are a wonderful way for children and young people to engage with socio-political and human rights issues.

The Amnesty Carnegie and Greenaway medal

Learn more about the Amnesty Carnegie and Greenaway medal for human rights in children’s books from 2016 to 2018.

Stories and Rights blog

Read our blog for the latest on our publications and literary initiatives and hear from writers and illustrators about human rights.

Using fiction to teach human rights

Our series of teacher's notes accompany recommended human rights fiction for primary and secondary, including discussion questions and activities.

Online shop

Looking for a good read? From short stories to poetry, for adults and children, you'll find the best of human rights reads here. Browse our online shop.

Children's books

We believe that children's books are important in developing values that underpin our human rights. And it turns out the psychologists agree with us.

Books for Amnesty

Whether you want to shop in store or buy online, you'll find a wide range of fascinating and unique second hand books in our six bookshops and on Abe books.

We Are All Born Free

We Are All Born Free is an award-winning book of thirty beautiful illustrations celebrating The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perfect for children and adults alike.

Dreams of Freedom

This beautifully illustrated book offers 17 illustrated quotations on freedom, from inspirational figures including Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai

Our little book of human rights

A star cast illustrates each of our human rights, with an introduction by AL Kennedy. Find out why we teamed up with Waterstones to make this small booklet full of great ideas.

Video: Everybody

A short animated film that brings to life the Universal Declaration of Human Rights illustrations from We Are All Born Free.

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