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Our Human Rights Manifesto 2024 - Amnesty
Oct 8, 2024 · Amnesty International is investigating mass summary killings, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, hostage-taking, and siege tactics. As ever, our mission to protect human rights remains. Please donate today to help expose war crimes and protect human rights. Thank you. Our manifesto for the next UK government covers a broad range of ...
Campaigns and Issues - Amnesty
Northern Ireland. From dealing with the legacy of the Troubles, to issues relating to Abortion rights, and individual stories of victims, we campaign for Human Rights in Northern Ireland at Stormont, through the media, through education, and at meetings and events all over Northern Ireland. LGBTI rights.
Human rights in the UK - Amnesty
The Human Rights Act brings home fundamental, universal rights we all have as human beings, and allows us to challenge authorities if they violate them. If you’re lucky you won’t ever need to use it in a court. But it’s protecting you all the same. It’s an invisible safety net for all of us, working quietly to ensure our rights are ...
About Amnesty International UK
We are Amnesty International UK. We work to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. As a global movement of over ten million people, Amnesty International is the world's largest grassroots human rights organisation. We investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilise the public, and help transform societies to ...
What are human rights? - Amnesty
Jan 21, 2017 · Human rights are the fundamental rights and freedoms that belong to every single one of us, anywhere in the world. Human rights apply no matter where you are from, what you believe in, or how you choose to live your life. Human rights can never be taken away, but they can sometimes be restricted – for example if a person breaks the law, or in the interests of national security.
The Prevent duty and its chilling effect on human rights - Amnesty
The reasons why people have been referred to Prevent are often shrouded in secrecy and there is no clear way to challenge referrals. Prevent is stripping people of their basic human rights and hampering their ability to live, work and speak freely. It is ineffective and a waste of public resources, where this resource can be better allocated.
What is freedom of speech? - Amnesty
Wrong. 'Freedom of speech is the right to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, by any means.'. Freedom of speech and the right to freedom of expression applies to ideas of all kinds including those that may be deeply offensive. But it comes with responsibilities and we believe it can be legitimately restricted.
Protect the Protest - Amnesty
Protect the Protest. Throughout history, people coming together in protest has changed the world for the better. From stopping wars, winning human rights victories and standing up against racism - protest has been powerful. But now, this precious right is under attack and deserves to be protected from people in power who fear change and don’t ...
UK: Government is ‘bulldozing’ UK human rights - global
The Government is “bulldozing” human rights in the UK as part of a systematic dismantling of human rights protections which is also threatening respect for human rights around the world, said Amnesty International today (28 March) as it published its annual review of global human rights. Focusing on developments from 2022, Amnesty cited ...