Tag: Amnesty International

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

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…

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

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…

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Amnesty International launch spoof Saudi Arabia ad

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…

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

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…

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Amnesty International highlights plight of refugees through groundbreaking film

Stuart Mitchell

In a bid to shed light on the dangerous journeys refugees are forced to make on a daily basis, Amnesty International has launched a groundbreaking short film, “Through the eyes of a refugee”. The film documents an extraordinary project in which five people from the Netherlands and Belgium were brought into a state of hypnosis, so they could gain deeper insight into the journey of a Syrian refugee. Under the guidance of a professional hypnotherapist, the participants experienced the journey of 29-year-old Marwa, from Syria, as she made her way…

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