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  • Saudi women arrested for driving - not cars, but human rights change

    Women in Saudi Arabia will finally be able to drive legally in June 2018. But in a cruel twist, 11 of the women human rights defenders who led the campaign have been arrested.

    Blog post 23 May 2018
  • London: 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre vigil

    London: 29th anniversary of the #TiananmenMassacre vigil https://www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs/countdown-china/london-29th-anniversary-tiananmen-massacre-vigil. 伦敦中使馆前将集会纪念 #六四 二十九周年：调查六四真相、追究屠杀责任、结束一党专制、释放良心囚徒，保障人权平等 、建设民主中国! #TAM29 #89June429 #大屠杀 #八九 #六四…

    Blog post 21 May 2018
  • Why Palestinians risk their lives for their rights

    Palestinians have been fighting for their basic rights for 70 years - ever since Israel destroyed their homes and forced them to flee. This has to change.

    Blog post 16 May 2018
  • Tep Vanny: Jailed for defending her home

    Tep Vanny is a Cambodian land rights activist known most prominently for her work surrounding the housing community in what used to be the Boeung Kak Lake area in central Phnom Penh. For over ten years, Tep Vanny has struggled to keep intact this…

    Blog post 14 May 2018
  • Fighting the Twitter Trolls

    Thousands of digital activists are helping us build an algorithm that can detect online abuse automatically. Here’s how you can join the online movement taking on the trolls.

    Blog post 10 May 2018
  • Stop saying 'illegal' immigrants

    The word 'illegal' comes very easy to policy and law makers, but very few give much thought to what it means and whom it affects.

    Blog post 08 May 2018
  • Liu Xia's current situation
    Blog post 05 May 2018
  • No consent, no fairytale

    Sex without consent is rape. So why do only nine European countries recognise this?

    Blog post 01 May 2018
  • North Korea: Is change really around the corner?

    At a time when the notoriously secretive state may be open to dialogue and senior officials are willing to talk about big issues such as nuclear weapons, could there be a permanent shift for North Korea?

    Blog post 27 Apr 2018
  • Crunch time: the Brexit Bill and human rights

    Amnesty takes no position on Brexit. We are interested only in ensuring people’s rights and protections – something the government also says it wants in leaving the EU.

    Blog post 26 Apr 2018
  • President of Malawi visiting the Scottish Parliament

    As the President of Malawi visits the Scottish Parliament, Amnesty is highlighting persistent human rights issues in Malawi. Concerns include violence against women, LGBTI legislation and people with albanism who live in daily fear for the lives.

    Blog post 26 Apr 2018
  • Egyptian women need our help more than ever

    Human Rights Defenders like Azza Soliman fight for equality daily in Egypt. However there’s a long way to go in the fight for women’s rights due to the increased criminalisation of feminists.

    Blog post 24 Apr 2018
  • Good News! Mahadine has been released
    Blog post 20 Apr 2018
  • Lessons in Collaboration

    Last month, Edinburgh University and Aberdeen University Amnesty Societies successfully co-hosted the annual Amnesty Scottish Student Conference at Edinburgh University Chaplaincy Centre. Jennie Joy from the University of Edinburgh Student Group shares…

    Blog post 17 Apr 2018
  • The Windrush scandal - just the tip of the iceberg

    Unless the government faces up to the past, injustices like those suffered by the #Windrush generation are certain to be repeated. Find out more.

    Blog post 16 Apr 2018
  • Seventy years after Windrush

    The Home Office has finally responded to mounting pressure over its disgraceful indifference to Commonwealth citizens, whose lives have been turned upside down several decades after they first settled in the UK. But is it enough?

    Blog post 16 Apr 2018
  • Suffragette Spirit artwork to be unveiled in Aberdeen

    NuArt, the Scottish arts festival, has appointed contemporary ceramicist Carrie Reichardt to create a piece of permanent public art to highlight Amnesty International’s project in support of women human rights defenders in the UK – Suffragette Spirit.

    Blog post 12 Apr 2018
  • Join our #TrollPatrol

    Everyone should be able to express themselves online without fear, and we want social media companies to do more to protect women from the abuse that’s silencing them. That’s why we have a new, digital activism human rights project that we need your help…

    Blog post 12 Apr 2018
  • After Saydnaya, we'll rebuild
    Blog post 08 Apr 2018
  • Freeing Nazanin - how we've persevered

    Daren Nair, Amnesty International activist, gives an update on the great work his group are doing to #FreeNazanin.

    Blog post 05 Apr 2018