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Explores a world where it takes a footballer 100 seconds to earn a monthly wage of a child labourer who make his boots.

Education Resources Catalogue

This catalogue lists all our key teaching materials including important themes of the day, and offer creative approaches

Education Resources Catalogue

Amnesty shop student letter

Amnesty shop student letter

Urgent Action update: Detainee in Venezuela held incommunicado again

After being disappeared for 23 days, Raúl Isaías Baduel is once again being held incommunicado at the National Intelligence Service facilities in Caracas, denied access to his family and lawyers. His family is concerned for his physical and mental integrity.

1st update on UA 194/17 issued 05/09/2017

Urgent Action: Poet in China detained after commemorating Liu Xiaobo

Poet Wu Mingliang, better known as “Langzi” (literally “Wanderer”), has been criminally detained on suspicion of “illegal business operations”. Previously held for questioning after co-signing a letter in support of Liu Xiaobo, Amnesty International believes he is being targeted for helping publish an anthology of poems commemorating the late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

UA 201/17 issued 05/09/2017

Urgent Action: Detained student activist risks ill-treatment in Sudan

Naser Aldeen Mukhtar Mohamed, the former chairperson of the Darfur Students’ Association at the Holy Quran University, was arrested on 22 August in Khartoum by National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) agents.

UA 203/17 issued 05/09/2017

Youth Group Action - September 2017

This guide will help youth groups plan their activities over the autumn term. It also features an introduction to our new campaign calling for increased recognition and protection of human rights defenders around the world.

Youth Group Action - September 2017

Urgent Action update: Indigenous peoples in Chocó danger in Colombia

Clashes between paramilitary groups, the National Liberation Army and state security forces continue to violate the rights of the Wounaan and Embera Indigenous peoples in Chocó, western Colombia, generating an imminent humanitarian and security crisis.

1st update on UA 178/17 issued 31/08/2017

Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience sentenced to death in Iran

On 27 August a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri to death for “spreading corruption on earth” for establishing the spiritual group Erfan-e Halgheh. He has been held in solitary confinement for over six years.

7th update on UA 212/14 issued 31/08/2017

Urgent Action update: Human rights defender remain in detention in Bahrain

Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was removed from solitary confinement following a two-day hunger strike in protest at her conditions of detention. She is a prisoner of conscience.

3rd update on UA 165/17 issued 31/08/2017