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Minding an Amnesty stall can be fun! At this year's Town Festival on 29th June we welcomed lots of visitors to our stall which was loaded with bric a brac, books and - for our first time - plants. With most items priced at £1, we...
If you are in Chipping Norton during the next 2 weeks, please do visit the old red phone box (by the pelican crossing) where we are promoting Amnesty International and the Charlbury Refugee Action Group. For refugee week we are...
As more visitors flock to the Oxfordshire Cotswolds during the summer months, will we be seen out and about in Chipping Norton and our neighbouring towns. On 17th May we joined the Oxford City Amnesty Group in Burford, marching through...
On Monday 24th March, the International Day for the Right to Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims , members of our Chipping Norton Group met at our town's flagpole in our Millennium Garden to...
We have been learning more about Campsfield House in nearby Kidlington. From 1993 to 2019 Campsfield was used as an Immigration Detention Centre. It is currently undergoing refurbishment and expansion in preparation for reopening as an...
For our first meeting of the year we met at The Fox Inn which is conveniently located next to the Town Hall in Chipping Norton. We started with our Annual General Meeting and a reminder of our achievements during 2024: well-attended...
Each year for Christmas we decorate our Amnestree which we planted in December 2012 to commemorate the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948. At this time we also remember members of our Amnesty...
Here we are, raising our Human Rights flag again - this time to mark the International Human Rights Day on 10th December. Seven members of our Chipping Norton were joined for the occasion by Chipping Norton's mayor, Sandra Coleman, and...
This year's International Human Rights Day commemorates the 76th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . This year's theme, "Our rights, our future, right now" reminds us...
Today, 25th November, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women . It is also the 10th anniversary of the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against...