Tag: Suffragette Spirit

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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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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