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Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s claim about child refugees could not be further from the truthWhen the Home Secretary announced the government would end its scheme to bring lone child refugees already in Europe to the UK, she claimed it was because it encourages children to make dangerous journeys and benefits smugglers. This could not be further…
Blog post 22 Feb 2017 -
Three years and counting for exercising his right to freedom of speech: Free Leopoldo LopezWe took over 2,000 signatures of support to the Venezuelan Embassy to call for the release of Leopoldo, a prisoner of conscience detained for his non-violent political activities
Blog post 21 Feb 2017 -
A dark age for human rights in the UK2016 saw politicians using toxic rhetoric to create an ‘us v them’ climate of blame, hate and fear, undermining the very foundations of universal human rights. Join the fight for rights and stop the roll back.
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Annual Report: Hateful, toxic rhetoric creating a dangerous and divided worldPress release 21 Feb 2017
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2016: The year of ‘us vs them’The world in 2016 became a darker and more unstable place. From the vicious crackdowns on dissenting voices to the rise of hate speech across Europe and the USA, don't let them divide us. Join the fight for human rights.
21 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activists could be charged for exposing torture in ThailandA decision by the Public Prosecutor on whether to prosecute three human rights defenders on criminal defamation and compu
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds of peaceful marches attacked by police in Vietnam
Around 700 men, women and children were attacked by police while on the way to submit legal complaints against Formosa Plastics, with damages amounting to US$20 million.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Northern Ireland: women’s rights must not be traded away in post-election talksPress release 20 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Indigenous community at risk due to threats in Peru
More than 60 heavily armed individuals entered Asháninka Meantari Indigenous community territory in the Central Peruvian rainforest and forced out 21 families by subjecting them to death threats.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
LGBTI rights: Educating about global dimensionsFurther education resources, Teaching resource, Secondary education resources 20 Feb 2017
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Resisting the banThe human impact of President Trump's hateful rhetoric becoming policy is all too real. But so is the resistance. We are looking at how people around the world are taking a stand.
Blog post 20 Feb 2017 -
Donald Trump is alienating his most valuable alliesIn pushing this travel ban, Trump is alienating some of his most important allies in the fight against terror — the other people who have suffered at the hands of armed groups like the one calling itself Islamic State. Read our analysis.
Blog post 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Growing health fears for prisoner of conscience in Vietnam
Denied proper medical treatment by prison authorities since April 2015, when she was first diagnosed with a tumour on her uterus, Trần Thị Thúy is no longer able to walk without assistance.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Five questions the UK government must answer regarding arms to Saudi ArabiaAs we wait for the outcome of the legal challenge to the UK government's continuing arms sales to Saudi Arabia, here are five questions the UK government must answer. They owe it to us, and more so, to the people of Yemen.
Blog post 20 Feb 2017 -
Trump visit demo, London (Mon 20 Feb): activists to protest at human rights 'roll-back'Press release 17 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Three human rights defenders held incommunicado in Vietnam
Within 10 days of each other, three unassociated Vietnamese human rights defenders were arrested in January and are currently being held in incommunicado pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Palestinian boy's administrative order renewed in Israel/OPT
17-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Azmi Abdurrahman Hanatsheh was arrested by Israeli forces on 1 August 2016. He was initially placed under a six month administrative detention order, which was renewed by a further two months on 31 January.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Paramilitary incursion in Humanitarian Zone in Colombia
A group of paramilitaries entered the Humanitarian Zone of Nueva Esperanza en Dios in the Cacarica river basin in north-west Colombia looking for several individuals which they claimed were on a death list.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Lucha activist released without charge in the DRC
Musasa Tshibanda, an activist from the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was released on 8 February.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner in solitary confinement for months in Morocco
Ali Aarrass has been held in prolonged solitary confinement since his transfer to Tifelt II Local Prison on 10 October 2016. His health has sharply deteriorated as a result.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017
