Tag: Amnesty International

Authorities poised to wield new legislation to ban films featuring LGBTI characters

Stuart Mitchell

Reacting to the news that the Russian media regulator is poised to censor online content containing references to LGBTI people or rights, including banning movies and TV series featuring LGBTI characters, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, said: “The Russian authorities are preparing to further scapegoat and stigmatize LGBTI people in the country through new homophobic legislation, including by perversely banning globally acclaimed movies like Brokeback Mountain and Call Me by Your Name. “This unabashed censorship shows that the Russian authorities are wholly out-of-step with human rights, willing to blatantly…

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Amnesty calls for more cuts and loss and damage fund for people whose rights are hit by climate crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Ahead of COP27, as the world hurtles towards global warming levels of at least 2.5°C, Amnesty International is urging all governments party to the UN Framework on Climate Change to update their 2030 emissions targets to ensure they are aligned with keeping the average global temperature increase below 1.5°C, commit to rapidly phasing out the use and production of fossil fuels without relying on harmful and unproven ‘shortcuts’ like carbon removal mechanisms and wealthy countries must establish a loss and damage fund for those whose rights have been violated by…

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World’s biggest letter writing marathon will help 10 victims of human rights abuses get justice

Stuart Mitchell

Millions of letters, emails and texts will be sent to support people who have been jailed and attacked during Amnesty’s annual Write for Rights campaign People across the UK can join to help 10 individuals facing abuses, including: An artist from Russia, arrested for protesting the invasion of Ukraine A hairdresser and single mother from Cameroon, imprisoned for attending her first peaceful protest A human rights lawyer from Hong Kong, jailed for commemorating the Tiananmen Square anniversary on social media Amnesty International has launched its flagship annual letter-writing campaign, Write for Rights…

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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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