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Amnesty UK

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Amnesty UK

@AmnestyUK

Amnesty International in the UK (Charitable Trust & Section) fighting for human rights across the UK and world. Follow us for human rights, activism & news 📣

United Kingdom

Joined March 2008

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First Minister, it's time to deliver. Bring forward the Human Rights Bill within the first year of the new Scottish Parliament. Scotland needs a Human Rights Bill to enshrine people’s everyday rights into law – so everyone can live with dignity.
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Join @PREVENTwatchUK, @AmnestyUK and @libertyhq for the launch of a new resource helping educators navigate the Prevent Duty. Find out more about the new resource we've developed for educators - which outlines the truths of Prevent, and educators' rights and duties surrounding
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Navigating Prevent: Safeguarding not Securitisation
Join Prevent Watch, Amnesty UK and Liberty for the launch of a new resource helping educators navigate the Prevent Duty.
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A United Nations’ independent commission has found that Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children. Commission chair Srinivasan Muralidhar described the “systematic killing and harming of children” including since the so-called ceasefire was declared in October 2025.
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#Pride is a protest for human rights, equality and respect. 1/3🧵
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Earlier this week, we met with Parliamentarians who showed their support for LGBTI+ people and commitment to defend their human rights. 2/3🧵
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Only last month, the UK was placed 22nd in Europe for its treatment of LGBTI+ people. In 2015, it was first. This decline is unacceptable and we continue to call on the UK government to defend and protect human rights for all. 3/3🧵
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We’ve partnered with Bambi Street Artist on a special collaboration to mark 65 years of Amnesty, celebrate the power of collective action and remind us that the fight for human rights is as urgent as ever! Bambi has created two designs for our collection. By wearing these
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US-Iran deal risks becoming a shield behind which impunity continues. Impunity, occupation and repression must not indefinitely persist. For civilians in Iran, an end to bombardment alone will not guarantee the safety of a population subjected to an intensified campaign of
$a glimmer of relief\nNews of a deal will bring a glimmer of precarious relief to millions across the region who have been living in limbo for the past four months. \n\nThe war has killed more than 6,000 people across the Middle East and rattled the global economy.$
$a human rights deal\nAny deal signed must go beyond safeguarding strategic and military interests of the US and Iran. Any deal must centre the protection of human rights, accountability, justice \nand reparations, including guarantees of non-repetition, for victims of crimes under international law.$
$justice is key\nFor all violations of international humanitarian law, including war crimes, must be independently investigated.\n\nThose responsible must be held to account.\n\nVictims across the region should receive justice and reparations.$
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“I was a doctor when they took me, and I am a doctor now that I have returned. My commitment to my patients remains the one thing they could not take away.” Dr. Ahmad Mhanna, former director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, shares his harrowing testimony of survival.
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The past weekend showed what the UK is really made of: solidarity, unity and love. Thousands marched against racist violence, against division, against inequality. In Belfast, the community rescued people from their homes as they were fire bombed by racists. In Glasgow,
$we\u2019ve shown them our unity is our strength$
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Our NI Director @PatrickCorrigan summing up unwanted intervention from agitators abroad ‘we’ve got plenty of our own racists’
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This is what terrorism now looks like in the UK. Yesterday, the Court of Appeal accepted the Government's appeal and ruled that the Home Secretary's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation was lawful. Amnesty International is deeply disappointed by this
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Last week saw the worst and best of Belfast. Racist hate mobs attacked people in their homes, boosted by shameful political rhetoric and far-right social media accounts. But Belfast also showed another face. Community activists stepped up to save lives and rehome their
“This Is the Real Belfast”: Major Antiracist Rally Condemns Anti-Immigrant Riots
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Today's ruling by the Court of Appeal is deeply disappointing. This case remains about much more than one group. What’s important for all of us to understand is that proscription is one of the strongest powers the government has. Treating protest as terrorism leaves the
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Today's ruling by the Court of Appeal is deeply disappointing. This case remains about much more than one group. What’s important for all of us to understand is that proscribing a group as a terrorist organisation is one of the strongest powers the government has. The
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