Briefing: King's Speech (May 2026)
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Amnesty International UK urges Parliamentarians to make interventions in support of Human Rights wherever possible after latest King's Speech.
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This briefing includes information on the following issues:
- Social Security Sanctions and Hunger
- Tackling Food Insecurity
- Palantir’s contract with the NHS to deliver the Federated Data Platform
- Defending Human Rights for Everyone
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Opposing anti-human rights actors
- Policing
- Conversion Practices
- Asylum and Women, Peace and Security
- Asylum policy and decision making
- Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – action to counter settlement expansion
- Transnational Repression
- British National Ahmed al-Doush detained in Saudi Arabia
- Conflict in the Middle East
- Sudan
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