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‘Twitter is failing us’: High-profile women, MPs, women’s rights organisations and celebs pressure Twitter CEO to tackle online abuse

April 27, 2018April 18, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

Women’s rights organisations, politicians, celebrities and activists have put pressure on Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey to do more to keep women safe from the violence and abuse against women which is rife on the social media platform. In a letter published by Amnesty International and signed by more than 20 high-profile women, including Dr Helen Pankhurst, CARE International UK; Caroline Lucas MP, Co-leader of the Green Party; Laura Bates, Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project; Lauren Mayberry, frontwoman of band Chvrches; Deborah Frances-White, of The Guilty Feminist Podcast and Kate…

Artist takes to the streets of Aberdeen in support of Amnesty International

April 21, 2018April 14, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

Global human rights organisation Amnesty International announces an artistic collaboration with arts festival Nuart Aberdeen. The Scottish arts festival, now entering its second year, has appointed contemporary ceramicist Carrie Reichardt to create a piece of permanent public art to highlight Amnesty International’s project in support of women human rights defenders in the UK – Suffragette Spirit. The ceramic mural entitled ‘Suffragette Spirit’ – which will be accompanied by two other works by Carrie Reichardt – will celebrate Scotland’s woman human rights defenders, using classic revolutionary imagery and created using the…

Football clubs to celebrate the contribution refugees make to football in Amnesty’s second Football Welcomes weekend

April 18, 2018April 9, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

Football clubs across the country will be taking part in Amnesty International UK’s second Football Welcomes weekend next month to celebrate the contribution refugees have made to the professional game since the Second World War. Football Welcomes, supported by a range of Premier League clubs, the English Football League and the FA Women’s Super League, will take place on 21-22 April. The first Football Welcomes weekend took place last April, with 30 clubs participating. This year even more are set to take part. Clubs will put on various events and…

Amnesty International launch spoof Saudi Arabia ad

April 6, 2018March 30, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

Amnesty International has launched an advertising campaign satirising Saudi Arabia’s attempts to rebrand the country as “reforming” despite an ongoing crackdown against human rights activists in the Kingdom. “Saudi Arabia’s aggressive publicity drive to rebrand its image, tarnished by a ruthless crackdown on freedom of expression and a bombing offensive in Yemen, is fooling nobody,” Amnesty International said today, as it launched a satirical ad campaign telling the authorities not to mistake public relations for human rights. The campaign by the global human rights organization, calls into question the PR…

Amnesty celebrates International Women’s Day with ‘Suffragette Spirit Map of Britain’ launch

March 26, 2018March 14, 2018 Stuart Mitchell

On International Women’s Day Amnesty International UK launches its Suffragette Spirit Map of Britain to celebrate the incredible work being carried out by women in their communities 100 years on from first winning the vote. For the past month, Amnesty has worked with newspaper groups Archant, Newsquest, Trinity Mirror, Johnston Press as well as metro.co.uk, marieclaire.co.uk, stylist.co.uk and the People’s Postcode Lottery to scour the country for women who embody the continuing suffragette spirit – today’s women human rights defenders. The huge number of nominations and the enormous range of…