Tag: Amnesty International

Amnesty International UK Media Awards 2022 – Winners Announced

Stuart Mitchell

Awards presented by Nawal Al-Maghafi and Krishnan Guru-Murthy Al Jazeera took home award for best investigation Outstanding Impact Award won by BBC for investigation into Russia’s Wagner group The winners of Amnesty International UK’s prestigious Media Awards 2022 have been announced this evening at a ceremony held in London, hosted by the BBC’s Special Correspondent and Filmmaker Nawal Al-Maghafi. The awards celebrate the best human rights journalism of 2021 across 12 categories, including investigations, broadcast news, documentaries, photojournalism, student media, radio and podcasts, as well as best use of digital…

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Write for Rights: World’s biggest human rights campaign marks 20th birthday

Stuart Mitchell

Amnesty International’s record-breaking Write for Rights campaign has launched, marking 20 years of the global letter-writing drive. Since 2001, the organization has collected millions of messages written in support of people who are unjustly detained or persecuted, and Write for Rights has become the world’s biggest human rights event. This year, Amnesty International is calling for justice for 10 more brave individuals and groups, including a citizen journalist imprisoned in China for reporting on Covid-19, an environmental activist imprisoned in Guatemala for campaigning against the destruction of one of his country’s…

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Amnesty and FA launch guide for increasing refugee women’s participation in football

Stuart Mitchell

Amnesty International UK, in partnership with the English Football Association, have launched a free guide and online training series which aims to increase refugee women’s participation in grassroots football. The guide will help coaches, clubs and their foundations, county FAs, and others to set up football sessions with and for refugee women and girls in their community. A number of football clubs across the country currently run free weekly football sessions with refugees to support fitness, help people feel part of the local community and reduce social isolation. But these sessions are often targeted at men and…

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Amnesty International and Advocacy Assembly launch new online courses on open source human rights investigations

Stuart Mitchell

Human rights researchers, activists and journalists are among those who will benefit from two new free online courses developed by Amnesty International and hosted by Advocacy Assembly to train people in how to carry out open source research for human rights investigations and advocacy. Based on the rigorous methodologies employed by Amnesty International’s Digital Verification Corps – an award-winning partnership with seven global universities – the courses will train people in investigative techniques used to verify digital content and tackle disinformation. “Never has it been more relevant for activists, journalists…

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‘Pride Inside’ online LGBTI+ festival line-up announced

Stuart Mitchell

Amnesty International, UK Black Pride, ParaPride, Gendered Intelligence and Stonewall are bringing Pride celebrations online this year When? Sunday 28 June – Friday 10 July 2020 Where? https://prideinside.uk/ View the Pride Inside programme here ‘It’s a tough time for a lot of people at the moment. Pride is as important and as relevant as ever’ – Comedian Rosie Jones Amnesty International, UK Black Pride, ParaPride, Gendered Intelligence and Stonewall are excited to reveal the line-up for Pride Inside – a free online festival of Pride celebrations. Pride Inside – which…

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